Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Pinterest with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 29 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Pinterest overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Pinterest as a Software Engineer(Internship) according to 29 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 28%
Phone interview: 23%
Presentation: 19%
Skills test: 14%
Drug test: 5%
Personality test: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Background check: 2%
Other: 2%
Group panel interview: 2%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Pinterest in Dec 2016
Interview
I applied online and was sent a coding challenge with three questions in Python and SQL. After I completed the coding challenge, I was contacted to set up a 1 hour technical interview with an engineer. The interviewer was friendly and answered all of my questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Pinterest (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Hard leetcode dynamic programming depth first search problem for the technical that I could only get the brute force solution for. People were really nice though and the process was smooth
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Pinterest (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
Applied online having attended a summer webinar -> CodeSignal OA -> Phone Screen -> Technical Interview
Process from CodeSignal to offer took about 1 month, overall pretty quick turnarounds to progress
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hashing-type question with emphasis on time and space complexities
Overall experience was neutral. Got an online assessment, finished it the next day. Did not hear back from them for 3 months. All of the test cases passed for the OA.