I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok in Sep 2022
Interview
Two coding rounds One system design round One experience round Then hiring committee has to review your feedback and level you before they come back with an offer Very smooth interview process. Communication is blunt. For some people this is a red flag but for me I think it is a green flag and a sign of a healthy organization. All my interviewers were very easy to talk to and work with, which I was not expecting from all the reports of bad culture at TikTok
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Two DP questions in two coding rounds For system design you are adding a feature on top of TikTok
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.