I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok in Feb 2022
Interview
Technical phone screen. Leetcode easy and I solved with the accepted solution with test cases passing. However, I was still rejected? Not sure what they were looking for in this interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Going to respect the company's privacy and not give specifics but this is a Leetcode easy question that you should be able to solve in less than 30 minutes.
Tackling the coding round was intense, kicking off with a question about counting distinct island shapes in a grid. The second challenge involved maximizing a sum without using adjacent elements, which really tested my problem-solving skills. About two minutes in, it hit me — this was a problem I had practiced on prachub.com just days before. The final question required implementing stacks and calculating the streaming median. After the technical rounds and a brief behavioral interview, I received an offer, which I happily accepted.
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