I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at ByteDance (Dubai) in Aug 2024
Interview
Process involves 1 HR interview and 3-4 tech interviews. The tech interview was pretty uncomfortable in my opinion. The interviewer has a very strong Chinese accent. The same went for the HR - and she seemed to be reading a script. Another annoying thing was very loud Chinese language in the background.
Besides the accent I was asked many questions about how my current company has things set up - architecture etc. Then one leetcode question - which unfortunately I didn't get right on the first try. Then the interviewer wanted to run it (c++ code) in Lark but we were met with Lark error that persisted even with my code commented out. I ended up having to share screen to show my program runs.
In the end was an easy sql question which I only understood on the third try because of the accent.
All in all it was a fairly easy interview, alas with the language barrier I'm now sure how you could work with these guys. I got a rejection 4 days later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
leetcode 3. Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters
absolute nonsense, inexperienced interviewer with weird questions
the interviewer also seems to be extremely exhausted, could be a good indication of their working culture(the interview was conducted 2pm local time)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
sort an array
asked for an solution better than O(long), what u invented quantum computing?
Overall timeline is long. Coding round is basically LC hard. Been switched to have conversation with 3 different teams. Interviewers except for hiring managers are nice. HR also helps a lot for team matching.