I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ByteDance (Singapur) in Dec 2021
Interview
I went for the first round of interviews and the person asked for the experience, and projects I did previously for the first 30 mins. As a backend engineer, he talked about MySQL, Redis, and Java-related knowledge. After that, we went for a coding question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most of the questions are experience related so just be confident about what you did and explain it in a clear way. For the coding questions, he went for Maximal Square from LeetCode.
Live Coding for 30 minutes, ask about the project I did. You must be very good at coding to pass the live coding part. It's around leetcode medium level. The interviewer was nice and gave many advices on future career.
Describe the most complex backend project you have taken charge of in the past. What is the business peak QPS? What technical bottlenecks did you encounter and how did you optimize them?
The interview process was fairly standard. They asked about technical skills, projects, and tested coding abilities. Overall, the communication went smoothly.
The interviewer was guiding throughout the process, helped debug the coding questions, and offered ideas to move forward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What’s the most complex or memorable online incident or piece of feedback you’ve experienced?