User-i2qe6Jun 17, 2026

Pinterest loop wrapped, no word yet

Hack2hire Community · 2026-06-17T06:00:00.035Z

Result: Pending Number of Rounds: 5 Finished my Pinterest loop last week, no word yet, posting in the meantime. SWE L5 loop, 5 rounds. BQ was fairly light, ownership and conflict questions, ran about 25 minutes. System design was a catalog update question, how you'd propagate changes across 500M records. Talked through partitioning by record ID and retry strategies for failed chunks. The onsite coding round that tripped me up was a hiking trail problem. Setup: you have a trail with stops at fixe...

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amychen98Jun 17, 2026

binary search on answer is the classic move for minimization problems like that. nice that you caught it

raj.patel1996Jun 17, 2026

Pinterest took about 2 weeks to get back when I looped there last year. probably similar now

jacobwhite0312Jun 17, 2026

what was the catalog update SD about more specifically? trying to prep for Pinterest

neha.sharma94Jun 17, 2026

500M product records, some downstream systems need to see updates. talked through chunking by record ID range, async processing, retry per failed chunk

ethanwong97Jun 17, 2026

did you get any feedback mid-loop or just waiting on a final decision?

neha.sharma94Jun 18, 2026

just waiting on the final call. nothing during the rounds

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