Pinterest·Machine Learning Engineer

Pinterest Machine Learning Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I did an online assessment as my first step, and it landed around a medium difficulty level with questions rooted in machine learning.

Right after that, I had a recruiter screening where we covered why I wanted to join Pinterest, and the recruiter moved quickly to the next stage.

The full loop had four rounds. Two of them were ML-focused and two were data structures and algorithms rounds. Every coding round I did was LeetCode medium. In the ML rounds, the problems felt “real-time” and were tied to specific products and scenarios—one centered on the Pinterest homepage, and the other on fraud detection.

It was a pretty tight end-to-end process that moved fast after recruiter screening. I didn’t end up with an offer, but the

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