I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Pinterest (Houston, TX) in Jul 2025
Interview
Interview for Pinterest. First part was a recruiter call then a technical phone screen. After that their virtual onsite interview loop which consisted of a behavioral section, two DS/A sections, one webcoding round. Felt like I crushed all the sections and EVERY single one of interviewers gave me feedback right after saying I did great. Yet the feedback from the recruiter was the team wanted someone more technically strong, like huh? Feels like they just genuinely wasted my time and probably already had someone they wanted to hire.
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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.