Pinterest VO recap, still waiting
Result: Pending Number of Rounds: 5
Just finished my Pinterest VO last week. SWE role.
Phone screen was one coding problem, escape room game type thing. Had to maintain player positions and do a leaderboard with tie-breaking. Took most of the time but got through it.
Onsite had three coding rounds, a system design, and BQ. Coding was medium-hard with some traps in the requirements you had to catch. SD was a catalog update problem at scale, heavy on partitioning logic. BQ was only about 25 mins, pretty light.
Waiting to hear back. No idea how it went honestly.
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escape room came up for me too during phone screen. getting through it is a decent sign. good luck
which team is it for? search or ads?
catalog update SD sounds pretty standard for them. heavy on partitioning and retry logic from what I heard
how long did they say the feedback timeline is?
usually 1-2 weeks per recruiter but I've seen people wait a month before getting anything. silence doesn't always mean reject tho