Pinterest Software Engineer interview: interrupted virtual technical questions

PinterestSoftware Engineer · Jul 2026

The interviewer sent the wrong virtual-meeting link and arrived about five minutes late, which set the tone. During a warmup that was basically a Boyer-Moore Voting Algorithm variation, they kept interrupting as I tried a brute-force implementation to understand the problem. I could not finish my thought. That happened again on a graph-traversal question. The interviewer seemed disengaged from th…

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