Pinterest·Software Engineer

Pinterest Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

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New York, NYPosted May 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I didn’t find the technical parts especially brutal overall.

The real problem was what happened around them—coordination and follow-up dragged on. I had to reach out multiple times just to get scheduled and to confirm that interviews were actually still happening.

Because the process was so slow to move forward operationally, my momentum kept getting interrupted even though the interviews themselves weren’t described as unusually hard. That gap between “the interviews” and “the recruiting logistics” ended up being the defining experience for me.

I never received an offer. The toughest part to sit with wasn’t the difficulty of the questions—it was how

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