Pinterest interview questions

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

Design a product recommendation system.

System designML Engineer

Design a rate limiter.

System designSWE

How do you prioritize features for your engineering team?

Cointracker4y ago

How do you coach and develop your engineering team?

Design a typeahead box for a search engine.

System designSWE

Implement a k-nearest neighbors algorithm.

TechnicalML Engineer

Pinterest1y ago

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)

TechnicalML Engineer

Pinterest4y ago

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

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