ByteDance Software Development Engineer SDE interview questions
based on 12 ratings - Updated Jan 20, 2026
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Software Development Engineer SDE applicants have rated the interview process at ByteDance with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 48.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer SDE roles take an average of 31 days to get hired, when considering 12 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at ByteDance overall takes an average of 26 days.
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It is global ecommerce team fromm ByteDance. Basic resume project description and one hard Leetcode problem on Hacker rank. Besides, there is nothing related to the technical parts and no behavior questions are asked for the first round. I failed in the first round.
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Question 1
Basic resume project description and one Leetcode problem on Hacker rank
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ByteDance (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2025
Interview
Asking and deep diving question based on my resume and other CS questions like database index and then coding 3 sums LeetCode problem. Every question is pretty deep dive into the knowledge
3 round techincal.
First 2 is find, the last one is weird. the interviewer didn't even turn on the camera, leaving me alone to respond and then gave me a rejection without reason...