Backend Engineer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at TikTok 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 37.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Backend Engineer Intern roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at TikTok overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at TikTok as a Backend Engineer Intern according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
One on one interview: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok (San Jose, CA)
Interview
First interview round scheduled after passing the OA. It was a DP problem that required traveling to the bottom right of a mxn grid. I explored options such as BFS and DFS before landing on the optimal solution of DP;
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked a follow up for if your path had to cross through a certain point on this grid.
The interviewer does not look very lively. I interviewed for the Recommendation System Infra team. They very heavy on Leetcode and C++, no behavioural question. I stumbled on it and did not pass.
resume deep dive and 1 leetcode medium, asked about caching basics and cpu scheduling algorithms, along with past work experience. 15 mins of resume discussion followed by 30 mins of leetcode