I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Pinterest (New York, NY) in Oct 2016
Interview
Met the recruiter at the career fair. She sent me the Lytmus coding challenge (had 12 hours to do this, finished in ~2.5 hours, which is the time they said it should take). Had an SQL question and 2 questions that required python code.
After the Lytmus test, there were 2 rounds of technical interviews over the phone.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a set of words and phrases, and a key, implement an efficient autocomplete algorithm to find all the words and phrases that should be suggested.
1st round technical phone screening with in 1 hour.
One follow up question was asked.
The problem was not too hard, but it requires you finish really fast without bugs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode 1564. Put Boxes Into the Warehouse I.
Follow up: what is maximum total box sizes.
Recruiter call, tech round, onsite and rejection call. They sent me an email about a week after the last onsite and asked me to schedule a call on the same day. I scheduled a call to listen 30 second long rejection notice. A half of interview rounds were horrible. Interviewers were not prepared and arrogant.
Good experience not the best outcome. Was 1000% sure I completed all coding and sys design but was told didn't get enough signal for the competency round. Overall very organized but not very satisfied with the response.