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      • Software Engineer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Pinterest with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Software Engineer Intern roles take an average of 39 days to get hired, when considering 9 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 Intern according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:

        One on one interview:  38%

        Phone interview:  38%

        Personality test:  13%

        Skills test:  13%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Software Engineer(153) ;
        2. Account Manager(58) ;
        3. Senior Software Engineer(32) ;
        4. Partner Manager(28) ;
        5. Machine Learning Engineer(20) ;
        6. Data Scientist(18) ;
        7. Software Engineer(Internship)(17) ;
        8. Software Engineer Intern(15) ;
        9. Product Designer(13) ;
        10. Program Manager(13) ;
        11. Product Manager(11) ;
        12. Sales Manager(11) ;
        13. Account Coordinator(9) ;
        14. Senior Account Manager(9) ;
        15. Software Engineer II(9) .


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      Jobs at Pinterest

      11 jobs in United States
      Sr. Software Engineer, Backend
      United States
      ·
      $156K - $320K /yr
      (Employer provided)
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      Staff Software Engineer, AI Tools
      Los Angeles, CA
      ·
      $177K - $365K /yr
      (Employer provided)
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      Sr. Software Engineer, Backend
      Seattle, WA
      ·
      $156K - $320K /yr
      (Employer provided)
      View job
      Staff Software Engineer, AI Tools
      Seattle, WA
      ·
      $177K - $365K /yr
      (Employer provided)
      View job
      Software Engineer II, Backend
      San Francisco, CA
      ·
      $124K - $255K /yr
      (Employer provided)
      View job
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      Software Engineer Intern Interview

      Dec 5, 2013
      Anonymous employee
      San Francisco, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Pinterest (San Francisco, CA)

      Interview

      I applied to Pinterest by giving my resume to a recruiter in a career fair. The interview process took several weeks, and involved three phone interviews. In my interview I was asked to code the typical "look and say" problem, aka getting 1112223 as input and outputting 313213, and to code a duplicate removal algorithm. For the second one, I was asked to find the k most frequently used words in a string, and to do the first missing number problem. Finally, for the last one I had to implement a hash map and all its methods. The recruiters and interviewers were all amazing and really kind.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      None of the questions were incredibly hard, but some of them were tricky.
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