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Tell me about the most challenging situation you faced in your career and how you handled it.
+55 months ago8 answers
Design a product recommendation system.
5 months ago6 answers
Design a rate limiter. Has video answer
+34 months ago13 answers
How do you prioritize features for your engineering team? Has video answer
+44 months ago3 answers
How do you coach and develop your engineering team? Has video answer
+35 months ago12 answers
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Design a typeahead box for a search engine. Has video answer
+4a year ago13 answers
Implement a k-nearest neighbors algorithm. Has video answer
a year ago14 answers
Pinterest WAU is up 5% but email notification open rates are down 2%. Figure out why.
5 years ago5 answers
How would you implement birth date capture for Meta?
a year ago
Given a list of strings, find all strings that encode to the same value using a Caesar Cipher. (A Caesar Cipher rotates characters, e.g. in CC3: a->d, b->e, ..., z->c)
9 months ago1 answer
Imagine a teleportation machine that can teleport humans for 100 meters. How would you monetize it? What are the use cases?
2 years ago1 answer
Design a shopping experience for Netflix.
2 years ago2 answers
Design spam detection on Pinterest.
3 years ago
As the PM for Spotify's Discover Weekly, what metrics would you track?
5 years ago3 answers
How would you decide ad placement on Pinterest?
5 years ago6 answers
Improve Pinterest.
4 years ago1 answer
What would be your strategy to improve Google Maps as a product?
10 months ago2 answers
Tell me something that's not in your resume.
10 months ago2 answers
How could e-commerce platforms enhance the shopping experience to be more inspirational?
2 years ago
Tell me about a time when you made a poor decision, and learned from it to make a better decision after.
10 months ago

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Pinterest Interview Questions

Tell me about the most challenging situation you faced in your career and how you handled it.

Design a product recommendation system.

Design a rate limiter. Has video answer

How do you prioritize features for your engineering team? Has video answer

How do you coach and develop your engineering team? Has video answer

Design a typeahead box for a search engine. Has video answer

Implement a k-nearest neighbors algorithm. Has video answer

Pinterest WAU is up 5% but email notification open rates are down 2%. Figure out why.

How would you implement birth date capture for Meta?

Given a list of strings, find all strings that encode to the same value using a Caesar Cipher. (A Caesar Cipher rotates characters, e.g. in CC3: a->d, b->e, ..., z->c)

Imagine a teleportation machine that can teleport humans for 100 meters. How would you monetize it? What are the use cases?

Design a shopping experience for Netflix.

Design spam detection on Pinterest.

As the PM for Spotify's Discover Weekly, what metrics would you track?

How would you decide ad placement on Pinterest?

Improve Pinterest.

What would be your strategy to improve Google Maps as a product?

Tell me something that's not in your resume.

How could e-commerce platforms enhance the shopping experience to be more inspirational?

Tell me about a time when you made a poor decision, and learned from it to make a better decision after.

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