Pinterest interview notes, page 7 of 24

“Easiest of the three.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Pinterest, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight into a visual search angle because Pinterest feels like a visual-first product, but I think I underweighted the intent side of things.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Pinterest, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew this was Eulerian path territory but my first instinct was plain DFS and I didn't think carefully about the lexical ordering constraint until I was mid-implementation.” 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.

“The core implementation wasn't the hard part.” 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 went straight to a sorted set keyed by negative room and arrival sequence, which handles getTop cleanly but I fumbled explaining why that makes proceedToNextRoom more expensive since you're doing a delete and reinsert.” 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.

“This is the main question and it sprawls fast.” 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.

“My first instinct was plain BFS and I started coding it before realizing state is wrong if you don't track which keys you have.” 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.

“This is one of those questions where you think you know it until you're staring at a half-written function.” 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.

“The constraint is what makes this annoying.” 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.

“Had actually drilled this one before the call so it went fine.” 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.