Pinterest Mock Interview

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

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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

The purpose of this question is to understand the communication skills you would bring to the Pinterest Software Engineering team. Throughout the interview, the hiring manager will seek to understand some of the soft skills pertaining to this job. These include communication, teamwork, conflict resolution, and others. Every time you answer a question, you are being evaluated for both your experience and skills, as well as your ability to communicate. This question relates directly to this objective. As you answer, this question gives you the opportunity to explain a complicated process to someone with little technical knowledge. Your interviewer will be looking to hear that you can do this effectively.

Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

"The easiest way to understand the cloud is that it is just another computer, phone, or storage device which is located remotely. It is similar to your hard drive or USB drives, except you access it via the Internet instead of directly on your computer. The cloud can also host applications and execute them remotely. Again, this is similar to your computer, cell phone, or any other device you may use. Whenever you make a phone call, ask Google for information, or order something on Amazon, you are using the cloud."

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30Pinterest Interview Questions & Answers

Leadership

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

Experience

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

Scenario Based

3.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?

Experience

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

Scenario Based

5.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

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

Experience

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

Teamwork

8.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?

Direct

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

Experience

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

Experience

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

Direct

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

Scenario Based

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

Job Satisfaction

14.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?

Competency

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

Diligence

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

Experience

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

Teamwork

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

Direct

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

Competency

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

Communication

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

Stress

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

Experience

23.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?

Competency

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

Experience

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

Scenario Based

26.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?

Experience

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

Software Engineer

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

Software Engineer

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

Software Engineer

Pinterest Mock Interview

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

30Pinterest Interview Questions & Answers

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

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

3.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?

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

5.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?

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

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

8.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?

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

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

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

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

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

14.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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23.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?

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

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

26.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?

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

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

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

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