Pinterest·Software Engineer

Pinterest Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Jul 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I found the whole process baffling, not because the interviews themselves were easy or hard, but because the communication after the process didn’t seem to connect to reality.

I’d passed the interview and expected to move into the next step, but I never received a single match call. My recruiter also stopped responding to my emails.

What made it feel even more unsettling was hearing that others were stuck in the same limbo for long periods—waiting since the previous year while still seeing the company keep posting roles and running interviews. The sense I ended up with was that the position might not actually have been available in the way the process suggested, and that even after successfully clearing a challenging loop, the offer chances could still be very

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