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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

September 1, 2013
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The whole process took about two weeks.

  1. Apply online.

  2. Recruiter calls you for 45 minutes to ask about your experience and what you want to do. They will check with the hiring manager to see if there is a match. All companies do this step; however, I think it's a waste of time. They should start with a tech phone screening.

  3. Tech phone screen: approximately 1 hour (first 45 minutes talking about your experience, last 15 minutes for coding).

  4. Onsite interview (coding only).

Questions

Given an input string and a dictionary of words, find out if the input string can be segmented into a space-separated sequence of dictionary words. You need to output the minimum number of words.

For example:

input: "aaaisaname" dict: ("a", "aaa", "is", "name")

output: "aaa is a name"

Wrong output: "a a a is a name"

Print an N x M matrix diagonally from the upper left to lower right. However, with the following caveat: It's easy to just show the input and expect output.

matrix: a b c d e f g h i j k

output: aej bfk cg di h

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 33 interview experiences for the Pinterest Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

27%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive61%
Neutral24%
Negative15%

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

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