Pinterest Interview Questions

I received an email inviting me for interview about 6 weeks after submitting my resume through the referral program. First stage was an initial phone screen call with the recruiter. She was very welcoming and ensured I had time for questions and didn't feel rushed. Next stage was a video interview with the hiring manager who was very informative and clear about the role. Her passion for her role and her team was very obvious and it make me even more definite that I wanted the role. Next stage was 4 x 30 min interviews with cross functional colleagues I would be working with in my day to day if I got the role. Although it's intense, Pinterest prepare you. At all times in my communication the recruiter continuously asked if there was anything she could facilitate to make the candidate experience better. The one request I made was to spread out those multiple interviews over 2 days instead of all in one. She was happy to facilitate this and was so helpful. She also helped speed up the process for me as I had another job offer but Pinterest was my first choice. All in all this was one of the best candidate experiences I've ever had and I can't wait to join the team.

There we quite a few phone screens, rather than video interviews. This seemed a bit off specifically in the virtual workplace world we are in. The role was posted as fully remote, then through conversations was told I would need to commute quite far into an office in a major city and that this was due to change in leadership. Those I spoke to seemed wonderful and a joy to work with, the transparency wasn't there.

The initial communication was quick, but then after the first video chat interview it took a while to hear back from them. The video chat interview was uncomfortable because the interviewer didn’t seem interested or engaged so it was like filling out a questionnaire. I’ll chalk it up to a lack of compatibility which is completely acceptable but the experience was negative because of the weird energy that was coming my way.

It started with an online assignment about data structure and algorithms. The problems were easy to medium (not hard) but the time was not enough to fully check all of them.

Decent recruitment process, no complaints. We got chatting about developing and maintaining relationships with candidates but I got ghosted by them. ATS systems in 2021 makes it easy to close off with candidates… there’s no reason to ghost. I took this personally since I’m a recruiter myself and we spoke about it. Judging by previous reviews they tend to do this a lot.

Talk about the project first. Ask some machine learning questions basic but in detail and not so easy to answer Coding challenge online about a prefix question (Trie tree) need to analysis time complexity

Just the First round: OA. 2 coding problems and 10 multi-choice machine learning basic questions. The difficulty is just fine. As long as you have studied machine learning systematically, you can solve most of them. I got a positive feedback via the email from HR next day, so now I am waiting for the next round.

I first had a coding challenge and then heard back from them in li a week. I had a call with the recruiter where she just tried to gauge my interest and answer any questions I had. Finally, I had an onsite that felt like a phone screen (just one 1h long interview with a leetcode medium question.

Overall very interesting and conversational topics and experience relations. I think that preparation is definitely required in order to be successful and being able to effectively communicate interest in data and data analysis

4 coding questions with 90 min. The first question is easy but it becomes harder as you go. First question is basically them giving you exact instructions on how to solve the question