Pinterest·Software Engineer

Pinterest Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

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United StatesPosted Dec 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The overall interview felt pretty typical for a software engineer role: multiple coding rounds plus a system design round, along with a behavioral round.

The coding questions were leetcode-style data structures and algorithms.

What made it harder for me was that I hadn’t encountered some of those patterns before. So even when I understood the general format, the specific question types weren’t familiar enough for me to move quickly.

I didn’t get an offer. My main reflection was that the bar was strict and straightforward, and my lack of exposure to those exact coding patterns ended up costing me.

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