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!
Sr. Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Pinterest with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 20% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sr. Software Engineer roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 10 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 Sr. Software Engineer according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 13%
Group panel interview: 13%
Presentation: 7%
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