Pinterest Software Engineer interview experience

After those, I had an interview with the hiring manager.

The coding interview felt fairly standard for software engineering—someone gave me a multi-step question to work through. Between the coding and the systems design part, the process covered both algorithmic problem solving and the ability to think at a higher level about system tradeoffs.

I didn’t receive an offer, but I felt like I was being evaluated through a straightforward sequence. The overall difficulty didn’t feel chaotic—more like a conventional loop that tested multiple dimensions of engineering.