Pinterest Senior Site Reliability Engineer Interview Experience — Phone Screen With a Four-Part GET Request and IP Counting Task, Then Silence

Pinterest·Site Reliability Engineer·Jul 2026
Technical ScreenSenior+No responseeasy

I have no SRE experience, but I have 7 years as a cloud SDE and I've always been part of the oncall rotation. I was recently laid off and I'm in a hurry to find a job. Pinterest didn't have a role that fit me especially well, so I just applied to a Senior SRE role to try my luck, and I got a phone screen invitation.

The recruiter said the early questions would be similar to LeetCode coding problems, and that the VO would cover Linux and networking. But I found the phone screen is still different from the SDE one.

The same day I received a visa assessment, and then I heard nothing back...

Question description, four parts in total:

Given a URL and headers, make a GET request and get the value of a certain field.

From the extracted text, get all the valid IP addresses.

Given another URL, get the same field as in the first step.

Count all the valid IPs and sort them by count.

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Interview at a glance

Company
Pinterest
Role
Site Reliability Engineer
Level
Senior+
Rounds
Technical Screen
Outcome
No response
Difficulty
easy
Interview date
Jul 2026
Questions from this interview
1 question

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