I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at TikTok (New York, NY) in Jun 2020
Interview
3 round tech interview. You can have next round interview only if you got positive feedback from last round interview. The process of each round: First self-intro, then mainly focus on solving coding problem, finally ask interviewer question. After pass 3 round tech interview, go to team match stage. Then offer call.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
round1: leetcode 403 frog jump
round2: leetcode 286, 735
round3: find peak element in array then in matrix
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at TikTok
Interview
- recruiter asked me to speak in Chinese for latter half of screen
- 1st round was algo interview
- 2nd round was algo and system design
- didn't move forward after second round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- 1st round was simple 1D dp problem
- 2nd round was graph problem (Djikstra's) and ML system design
2 rounds coding a lot of background questions very strange behavior from interviewer camera was off and asked questions in mandarin, leetcode medium-hard and very very slow communication from recruiters based in asia for an english role
OA - 1 arrays Medium, 1 Trie Hard. I had 45 minutes to complete that. I was able to do the medium in about 15-20 minutes but I am not that great with trie ds so I was not able to finish.