I applied online. I interviewed at Pinterest (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2021
Interview
They first reached out after I applied online via my email to schedule a live coding session with the karat platform. The interviewer and I had video on during the call and they had me solve two coding questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked for string manipulation into "justified" blocks of other strings given a character count. notable that the code is not run through a code checker, instead the interviewer checks it
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I applied online. I interviewed at Pinterest (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Hard leetcode dynamic programming depth first search problem for the technical that I could only get the brute force solution for. People were really nice though and the process was smooth
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Pinterest (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
Applied online having attended a summer webinar -> CodeSignal OA -> Phone Screen -> Technical Interview
Process from CodeSignal to offer took about 1 month, overall pretty quick turnarounds to progress
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hashing-type question with emphasis on time and space complexities
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