I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Pinterest (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2025
Interview
Interviewer sent me the wrong link to a virtual meet, then was 5 minutes late to the interview. During the "warmup" question, which was a variation on Boyer-Moore Voting Algorithm, kept stopping me from implementing a brute-force solution to understand the problem, and didn't let me finish my thought. Did the same thing for the second problem, which was a graph traversal problem. Didn't seem very interested in the interview from the beginning.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Two coding questions: minimum element & graph traversal
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
Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Pinterest with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 30 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Pinterest overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Pinterest as a Software Engineer(Internship) according to 30 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 28%
Phone interview: 23%
Presentation: 17%
Skills test: 15%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Background check: 2%
Personality test: 2%
Group panel interview: 2%
Other: 2%
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