Recruiter reached out to me regarding a position in Web Ads Team. Phone Screen was very easy. I was asked a dynamic programming problem which involved recursion with memoization. Within 20 min of the interview, I had the most optimal code. The interviewer wasted the time by adding additional test cases to make sure the code works. He was frustrated when he realized all test cases have passed. He was fretting that he couldn't believe it. Before the interview was to conclude, he asked me another simple leetcode problem, and after I told my approach and started coding, the interviewer asked me to stop as it was 60 minutes into the interview. The interview concluded. Got reject the next day !

Surprisingly easy compared to what I expected from a company like Pinterest. The technical interview consisted of two coding questions, one about reconstructing routes from unordered travel tickets and another on implementing a Sparse Matrix class. Honestly, I felt a bit underwhelmed. What helped me most in prep was studying the case studies on PracHub, which gave me good frameworks to think through problems. I did get an offer, but I ultimately declined because I was looking for a more challenging environment.