Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at TikTok overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at TikTok as a Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
Other: 50%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at TikTok (Los Angeles, CA) in Feb 2022
Interview
Depends on your interviewer, can be good or bad. First interview was very insightful, kind, and helpful. Second interviewer was awkward, and quiet during interview and seemed rush to get to his next meeting. Note: most interviewers seem to have a chinese accent which may deter understanding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Variant of knapsack problem
2) Variant of a breadth first search graph algorithm
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