Pinterest·Data Scientist

Pinterest Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

United StatesPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

In my second technical round, I was asked to do a set of tasks that felt like a compact day’s worth of work.

The round included two SQL questions, two Python questions, and then one experimental case study. Altogether it took about an hour.

The interview was conducted with the interviewer appearing alongside someone shadowing, which made the whole thing feel slightly formal and observational. The tasks themselves were very hands-on: SQL for extracting and reasoning over data, Python for coding the analysis side, and then the experimental case study where I had to think through a scenario and communicate what I would do with it.

I didn’t receive an offer from this round. The experience was mostly

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