I'm a 2025 grad who went through Pinterest's new grad SWE process and got an offer. Posting this because I couldn't find a single current thread on new grad comp there, just old Glassdoor entries from 2022.
My offer (new grad SWE, L3, Bay Area, offer signed March 2026) Base: $158k Equity: $160k total RSUs, 4-year vest with 1-year cliff (so $40k/yr if stock price stays flat) Signing bonus: $15k Total year-one TC: roughly $213k (including sign-on and equity) Annual target after year 1 if no sign-on: ~$198k
For context I also had offers from a couple of other mid-size public tech companies. Pinterest was in the middle of the range. It's not Google money but it felt fair for a first job.
The new grad process was different from experienced hire I want to flag this because a lot of the interview breakdown posts assume experienced-hire loops. New grad was: OA (online assessment): two LeetCode-style problems, 90 min, their platform Technical phone screen: one 45-min coding interview (medium difficulty) Final loop (virtual, same-day): two coding rounds, one behavioral
No system design for new grad, which was a relief. The coding was medium-level. I got a graph traversal problem and a string manipulation problem. Nothing crazy. The behavioral round was one interviewer, mostly focused on teamwork and learning from failure.
Negotiation I tried to negotiate and got $5k more on base and $10k more in equity grant. Not huge movement but they did move. My recruiter said they have a band and can go to the top of it, so it's worth asking even if you don't have competing offers. I just said I was enthusiastic but my target was a bit higher and asked if there was room.
Overall: Pinterest was one of the more organized new grad processes I went through. Timelines were clear and they followed up when they said they would.