Recruiter round - Resume and projects mostly
Phone Screen - Leetcode based medium difficulty problem
Virtual Onsite - in total 5 rounds
Questions were mostly from leetcode. 2 coding, 2 systems design and one Hiring manager round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design splitwise using object oriented programming
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Pinterest (Ciudad de Mexico) in Aug 2025
Interview
It was fast and had 3 interviews after screening one.
Basic programming, but data wrangling was harder as the person interviewing had more experience than the previous ones and it showed
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What programming software do you use?
How would you arrange some data for future extraction
Interviewer barely spoke english. I solved the problem and had a bug. I was able to fix the bug quickly by myself. Then the next day the interviewer passed on my candidacy because my “initial solution had a bug” which I fixed quickly. The most annoying part of the interview was the lack of english-speaking abilities. Dont waste your time. They’ll dock you for any frivolous thing, especially if you’re not from “their” community. Please stop having people who dont speak english interview candidates!
