Pinterest·Software Engineer

Pinterest Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Dublin, DublinPosted May 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My most concrete step was a data-structures coding test where I could choose my preferred programming language.

The interviewer was helpful during the problem-solving—if I got stuck, they’d guide me rather than just leave me hanging.

What mattered most was execution: they wanted to see the code actually running and producing the expected outputs. The test felt difficult in the sense that it wasn’t enough to just describe an approach; I needed to get it working correctly.

I didn’t receive an offer, but the test itself felt fair and interactive, and it was clear they were grading practical correctness and the ability to reason through data-structure logic while keeping the implementation aligned with

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