I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Pinterest (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2018
Interview
Coding challenge (3 questions; the website they used involved using a VM to code which was extremely laggy. Use the feature where you can code on your own desktop and sync files.)Two rounds of technical phone interviews and an optional third if needed. Made it to the 2nd round, then was rejected, probably because my code was kind of buggy, I wasn't familiar with some of their products, and didn't have enough experience (which they told me).
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.
