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Pinterest Mock Interview

To help you prepare for a Pinterest job interview, here are 30 interview questions and answer examples.

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How would you handle a situation where a colleague was being very difficult to work with?

In the team-based atmosphere at Pinterest, departments with different skills and backgrounds can often see things from different points of view. These situations can cause some internal conflict between coworkers. With this question, your interviewer is looking to hear how you handle situations where you are working with someone who can be difficult. To give them the sense that you can work through conflict professionally and sensibly, try to talk through how you handled a conflict at work previously in the past and highlight the interpersonal skills that you used to help make it a positive situation.

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30 Pinterest Interview Questions & Answers

  • Communication

    1. How would you handle a situation where a colleague was being very difficult to work with?

  • Competency

    2. What programming languages would you consider yourself fluent in?

  • Competency

    3. What software analysis and design tools do you have familiarity working with?

  • Competency

    4. What data cleaning methods are you familiar with and comfortable using if hired for this role at Pinterest?

  • Diligence

    5. As a machine learning engineer, how do you avoid the curse of dimensionality in your designs?

  • Direct

    6. How do you feel cloud computing has positively impacted the software industry?

  • Direct

    7. What do you feel is one of the top issues that is faced by data engineers today?

  • Direct

    8. If hired here at Pinterest to develop iOS and Android software, when would you use a fragment rather than an activity?

  • Experience

    9. In designing Android software, what is your experience using parcelable versus serializable within an app?

  • Experience

    10. What experience do you have in the different types of software maintenance?

  • Experience

    11. Do you have experience working with data in a cloud computing environment?

  • Experience

    12. Talk about your previous user interface design experience in detail. Why do you feel that this experience will translate well to this role with Pinterest?

  • Experience

    13. What do you feel are the primary features and benefits of the Java programming language?

  • Experience

    14. Do you have experience working with different CASE tools? If so, what do you have experience with?

  • Experience

    15. Do you consider yourself stronger in C++, C#, Java, or Python?

  • Experience

    16. What unique values can you bring to Pinterest in your user experience design skills?

  • Experience

    17. What SDLC models are you familiar in working with?

  • Job Satisfaction

    18. As you reflect back on your career to this point in your search for a new position, what would you say is your ideal work environment or culture?

  • Leadership

    19. If hired for this position at Pinterest, what leadership skills would you bring to our team?

  • Scenario Based

    20. In SQL, how do you explain the differences between clustered and non-clustered indexes? Can you name a time that you used each?

  • Scenario Based

    21. How would you say that you would help bring sound data governance philosophies to this role at Pinterest?

  • Scenario Based

    22. A huge part of our business here at Pinterest is designing software for iOS. In this role, how would you steer away from retain cycles when using closures in Swift programming language?

  • Scenario Based

    23. If you were confronted with a time where you wouldn't be able to meet a deadline here at Pinterest, what steps would you take when you made that realization?

  • Scenario Based

    24. If hired here at Pinterest and tasked with helping design a UI for a new mobile app, what important factors would you consider in that design?

  • Software Engineer

    25. How do you go about organizing CSS files, and why do you prefer this approach?

  • Software Engineer

    26. How experienced are you with the Agile software development process?

  • Software Engineer

    27. How would you go about explaining cloud computing to someone that doesn't have a technical background?

  • Stress

    28. What skills do you use to cope with the day to day stress and pressure on the job?

  • Teamwork

    29. At Pinterest, we rely on a full team effort to deliver top quality products to our customers. Tell me about a time that you worked well as part of a team. Are you comfortable in a similar role here?

  • Teamwork

    30. If hired for this position here at Pinterest, would you be comfortable handling overall project manager responsibilities for new software development?