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Full Loop, Rejected on the Newly Added AI Coding Round

PinterestSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2026

Phone screen: LeetCode 1055 It was split into two parts. Part 1 only checks whether the target can be formed at all; once that ran and passed, I did the second part. For Part 2 I first tried recursion + greedy, but it had a bug and couldn't guarantee the optimal solution. After fixing that I wrote a recursive version that passed. But the interviewer wanted an iterative approach, so the rest was t…

Shared by a candidate · reported Sep 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.