I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at TikTok in Aug 2025
Interview
Received a Online Assessment after applying through a referral on the referral website. The OA was on codesignal with the similar format of 4 questions. I used the guide to help me figure what type of questions are asked in the OA
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I got 4 questions. One was an easy string/array, the second was a sliding window problem, third was matrix, and 4th was a two pointer sort problem.
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.