Pinterest·Data Scientist

Pinterest Data Scientist interview experience

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Seattle, WAPosted May 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an online technical screening, I had three interviews focused on product sense, statistics, and coding.

Overall, I felt the questions were reasonable, and nothing felt randomly off-base.

The product sense round, though, surprised me because it was packed with a lot of questions and the pacing felt crowded. The statistics interview also threw me off in a different way: it felt like there wasn’t good alignment between me and the interviewer, so even when I understood the concepts, the conversation direction felt confusing.

Even with those issues, I still came away thinking the intent behind the questions was fair. I didn’t get an offer, but the experience helped me understand where the process

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