I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Pinterest (San Francisco, CA) in May 2018
Interview
The interview includes one technical phone screen and an onsite interview. Most of the interviewers were very confused and less experienced. The technical phone screener kept the phone on mute and was not interested in knowing the process. On-site was another chaos, system design interviewers used one of their very specific use cases and were very fixated to a particular solution, overall I did not enjoy the interview process and people so declined the offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It was from the top 50 interview question on leetcode. very straightforward.
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.
