I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at TikTok (Bellevue, WA)
Interview
It was good, interviewer was also good, however got rejection in 3hours even after solving interview properly and correctly. The process was similar to description found regarding this position anywhere online
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I first got a leetcode medium question on hackerrank with testcases, to find a path from given source to destination, with obstacles and print the path. Then 30 mins discussion on NLP, Transformer, BERT etc.
Started with a recruiter screen with simple checks. Then went through 3 rounds of interviews. First 2 rounds were live coding with deep dive on previous projects. 2nd round went really deep of every previous work I did from MLE perspective with being questioned of every possible decision choice. Last was interview with team manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Recommendation system questions. Coding problems were I remember leetcode medium level.
three rounds, each has coding + ml basic + resume related questions
understand all the details in resume is important, since might go very deep down the project you have worked on
The first round was mainly a CV walkthrough.
The second round focused in depth on one specific project.
Both rounds also included LeetCode medium-level problems.
The third round was with the hiring manager with both project and problems for their business.