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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

July 21, 2026
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through college or university.

The interviewer sent me the wrong link to a virtual meet, then was 5 minutes late to the interview. During the warmup question, which was a variation on the Boyer-Moore Voting Algorithm, they kept stopping me from implementing a brute-force solution to understand the problem, and didn't let me finish my thought. They did the same thing for the second problem, which was a graph traversal problem. The interviewer didn't seem very interested in the interview from the beginning.

Questions

There were two coding questions: minimum element and graph traversal.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the Pinterest Software Engineer (Internship) role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

29%
Pass Rate

Pinterest's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in San Francisco, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive86%
Neutral0%
Negative14%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Pinterest's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in San Francisco, California.

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