I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Pinterest in Apr 2018
Interview
First online application, then received an email for a take home challenge. It was a Lytmus challenge with 2 questions. I believe the time frame was 12 hrs. It was hard navigating the platform. After submission received an email I would move onto the phone technical interview. It was with a web engineer who was very nice. I found the phone technical to be very easy in comparison to the take home. It was coderpad. I thought the phone interview went very well. I was able to complete the method that was asked for and the interviewer couldn't think of anything else to improve upon with it. Ultimately, I received an email that they would be passing a few days later. They were looking for me to have 'more experience' which was comical considering it is an apprentice position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a method that takes an array of names ['john', 'timothy', 'charles'] and returns a human-readable sentence ei. "john, timothy, and charles".
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I applied online. I interviewed at Pinterest (Frederick, MD) in Apr 2026
Interview
I code a 70 minute coding assessments I only got through the first two and sudo coded the last one. I got moved to the live interview next step :)
I applied online. I interviewed at Pinterest (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2026
Interview
Applied online at Pinterest for software engineer apprentice and 2 weeks later received coding challenge. Completed coding challenge. Finished first two questions and part of the third question. Have not received a response after the coding challenge
I applied online. I interviewed at Pinterest in Apr 2026
Interview
Received a CodeSignal answered three total questions out of the four. Still have not heard heard back. Apparently after the prescreen there is 4 rounds one 2 coding and 2 behavioral.