I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Pinterest (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2012
Interview
Did a interview test that has to be done in python, you can find the question if you google it. But they give you a week for it, so even if you don't know python you can figure it out.
Then did phone interview, and then a full day onsite.
I really liked the people so it worth interviewing there.
given an arrya of numbers see if you can get to index with 0 in it from an index by jumping through the array using the values in the array. So if you have [1,2,1,0,3] you can get to 0, from 0 by jumping 0, you can get to 0 from 3, by jumping 3 index down to 2 and then jumping 2 index up to 0...
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.