Pinterest·Software Engineer

Pinterest Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted Mar 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had an experience that felt less like an interview loop and more like a stalled follow-through.

It started with a recruiter call, then I went through a phone screen and eventually made it to an onsite. The questions weren’t described as especially hard to me, but the decision came down to fit.

I was primarily a front-end developer, yet they were looking for fullstack. I remember being told they didn’t move forward with an offer because of that mismatch, and that I should wait for other roles and interview again. Then the process just disappeared—during major layoffs, I was effectively ghosted.

I never received an offer. The hardest part to reconcile was that the technical portion

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