## Client

## Project

### Pinterest Interview Training

## Date

### July 2023

## The Problem

To deliver high-level interview training to Pinterest’s global teams in a manner that aligned all the departments across the organization. A linked key business objective was to integrate Pinterest’s Inclusion and Diversity strategy to interview training.

## The Roadblock

The Pinterest project team was distributed across various departments and locations across the globe. As a result, finding a middle ground in regards to content (being too specific vs being too high-level) and remaining focused on the project’s purpose was a challenge.

## The Process

We worked closely with the Pinterest team to ensure that the correct high-level content was reduced and collated.

Then during the course-making process we:

**1. Curated content that had global relevance to the hiring process**  
Goal – create a ‘one-team mentality’ around interviewing and hiring

**2. Worked closely with stakeholders across teams to encourage and document process-related decision-making**  
Goal – streamline the interview and hiring process

**3. Consulted with the HR, I&D, and Legal departments to ensure the right message was shared**  
Goal – instill Pinterest’s hiring principles and philosophies into learning

**4. Identified content relevant to different audiences and created a stand-alone module for Hiring Managers**  
Goal – target Interviewers and Hiring Managers

At the end of the process Pinterest’s Interview Training course consisted of 3 modules aimed at Interviewers and 1 module aimed at Hiring Managers.

## The Solution

**A transformational experience for Pinterest as an organization in terms of:**  
- alignment across global Pinterest,  
- understanding that the processes are aimed at creating an equitable experience for all Candidates,  
- predictability from one step to the next.

## The Reaction

> “...in short I LOVED IT!! So happy with the images, palette selection and tone. I feel like you really captured the Pinterest feel…/…overall so thrilled to see this come to life and feeling very excited about it!!! Massive thank you for all your hard work in getting us to this point!”  
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> Kate Lavelle, Manager II, Recruiting  
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> “...your guidance was very helpful in redirecting (internal stakeholders) back to the mission”  
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> “Legal and the I&D team was extremely impressed with content and delivery.”  
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> “there was a ‘we’ (Curious Lion and Pinterest) mentality in this initiative and I really appreciate that”  
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> Kim Tran-Young, Director, Recruiting