I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Pinterest (Lake St Louis, MO) in Jan 2020
Interview
The recruiter was very friendly and easy to get in touch with. I applied in December and heard back around early January. They asked me to respond to a few behavioral questions (how does your PhD align with the role, 3 things that inspire you etc.) via email and then scheduled my technical coding interview. I didn't do well on the first coding interview but they have a redo option so I did that and did a bit better (still not great). But overall feedback and experience was good.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Coding question: given an array of website names (mail.yahoo.com) and page views, find the number of times each subdomain (yahoo.com, .com, mail.yahoo.com) has occurred.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Pinterest in Sep 2022
Interview
Applied on the site, received interview for the coding assessment a few days later. Pretty smooth but I did not perform well on it. The time to finish was short given the nature of questions. Harder than the ones I've done at FANG's, but it might also have been because I had misguided expectations.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Two multiple choice questions about machine learning models, One that was closer to basic data science Two to implement machine learning algorithms "from the ground up"