Pinterest·Software Engineer

Pinterest Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Toronto, ONPosted Apr 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview process felt difficult overall, but it was still well organized.

I didn’t end up getting an offer, yet the impression I took away was that the hard parts were very addressable with repetition—especially the coding practice and typical LeetCode-style problems that show up in these loops.

As an experienced software engineer, I had expected it to be straightforward, but it wasn’t. Still, the structure of the process made it feel like I wasn’t dealing with chaos or random changes; it was more like I was being tested in a familiar way, just at a high bar. In my mind, the main missing piece wasn’t understanding software engineering generally—it was having

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