Pinterest·Software Engineer

Pinterest Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

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

Right after clearing the first coding round, the recruiter called me over video and immediately set a scheduling expectation that didn’t work for me.

She mentioned the rest of the interviews would be after 5:00pm Dublin time, and I said it wouldn’t be ideal because I had a hectic 9–5 job and those coding rounds are pretty intense.

Instead of trying to work with that, the tone turned combative. She told me I could opt out and implied my reaction reflected the kind of attitude they weren’t looking for. I’d been in Ireland for years and had interviewed with multiple teams, but I’d never seen a recruiter respond that way so quickly, and it made the entire process feel unnecessarily judgmental and unsympathetic.

I ended up pulling out of the

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