User-mg81jSep 4, 2026

Got the Pinterest MLE offer, still processing

Hack2hire Community · 2026-09-04T15:00:00.344Z

Got the Pinterest MLE offer, still processing For context I'm about 6 YOE, mostly recommendation systems work at a mid-size ecommerce company, so I went into the Pinterest MLE loop cautiously optimistic. Phone screen was the full three part thing, project deep dive first and they really wanted business impact numbers over pure model architecture, then straight into regularization and bias-variance stuff, then a coding problem on weighted random sampling. Finished quick enough that they threw in...

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User-2q2aiSep 4, 2026

congrats, the WLB reputation is what's pulling me to apply too honestly

User-s1yiuSep 4, 2026

the two SD rounds covering similar ground is such a Pinterest thing apparently, heard that from someone else too

User-kg1jcSep 4, 2026

yeah seems like a scheduling thing more than an intentional overlap

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User-yz82cSep 4, 2026

how bad was the LC hard round really, trying to gauge how much to prep

User-hbutzSep 5, 2026

honestly the coding felt harder than the ML design for me too, prep LC hard heavy

User-pjgidSep 19, 2026

Is the coding problem in phone screen a LC one?

User-s88o9Sep 4, 2026

weighted random sampling as a phone screen coding question is wild, did not expect that one

noahdavis02Sep 5, 2026

fully remote over higher TC is such a real tradeoff these days, good choice imo

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