Pinterest·Software Engineer

Pinterest Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Ciudad de MexicoPosted Apr 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

They told me to focus on basic topics—things like algorithms and linked lists—and then the interview turned into something much harder than that.

When I sat down with the interviewer, they even mentioned they were surprised by how difficult the LeetCode problem was and didn’t understand why the interview questions were raised to that level.

I remember it as a very sharp jump in difficulty. The problem wasn’t framed like a standard “warm-up” exercise; it felt like I needed to be already comfortable with more advanced problem-solving patterns. Even with the baseline material they referenced, the actual question pushed way past what I expected.

I didn’t receive an offer, and the main thing that stuck with me was the mismatch between

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