Pinterest·Data Scientist

Pinterest Data Scientist interview experience

Posted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter touchpoint, I got a technical phone screen for the full-time data scientist role.

It was a fairly tight, concrete setup: I answered two SQL questions and one Python question. The first SQL task asked me to find the top two categories by engagement rate per country, using event-style data like impressions and clicks joined with pin metadata. The Python question was centered on a “similar pins” style problem, where I worked through counting relationships between pin pairs.

Overall it felt domain-relevant but manageable once I got into the rhythm of writing correct SQL and handling the pairing logic in Python. The screen was marked as a pass, and it gave me confidence that

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