Pinterest Software Engineer interview experience

The interviewer didn’t seem to fully understand the exercise and kept steering toward doing things in a specific way, even though we spent a lot of time just trying to figure out what the question was asking.

It took roughly half an hour to reach shared clarity on the problem before I could even implement anything. As I worked through my interpretation, they didn’t really question my approach constructively—they instead repeatedly told me I was incorrect for each step I took. The result was that the time felt wasted on miscommunication rather than on a fair technical evaluation.

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