Pinterest interview notes, page 13 of 24

“This is broader than it sounds.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Pinterest, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was the whole interview.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Pinterest, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The multi-receiver part is what got me initially.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Pinterest, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I spent the first couple minutes thinking about this as a graph problem and almost went down a max-flow rabbit hole.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Pinterest, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The basic decode wasn't too bad once I realized you parse a multi-digit count followed by a single digit value.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Pinterest, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I covered the basics fine, output ranges, the vanishing gradient problem with sigmoid, ReLU's sparsity.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Pinterest, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Multiple choice framing threw me off a bit because I kept second-guessing whether they wanted the textbook answer or something more nuanced.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Pinterest, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew this was an Eulerian path problem pretty quickly but then froze on the implementation.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Pinterest, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Multiple choice format, which made it feel easier than it was.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Pinterest, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to just iterate and subtract, which works until you have overlapping reservations and suddenly your logic is wrong.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Pinterest, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.