I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at ByteDance in Oct 2021
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me and recommended me to interview for one of the new grad roles. Failed the first interview, which is partly on me as I did not prepare much for the interview, considering that ByteDance was one of the first few companies I was interviewing for. However, the interview experience was bad. The first part was some theoretical questions and the second part was a medium LC question. The interviewer was Chinese and could not speak English properly. I had a lot of difficulties understanding what he was asking and saying most of the time. He felt impatient and rude when I could not answer some of the questions clearly. I actually managed to answer the algo question pretty quickly, but he did not ask me to run the code or even run through with him how the code works. I think it might be because I already failed the interview before the algo question as I did not answer well for quite a number of the theoretical questions in the first part. But, this goes to show how unprofessional the interviewer is. I had 20+ interviews with other companies after this, and I can say that all of the interviewers were much more professional than him. I hope that I am just unlucky to get such an interviewer and other interviewers at ByteDance are better. Otherwise, I would be very thankful to have failed the interview, as I definitely would not want to work with such colleagues. Lastly, small thing, but he did not on his video camera for the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first part was some theoretical questions and the second part was a medium LC question.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at ByteDance (Varsóvia, Masóvia) in Sep 2020
Interview
The overall process was extremely welcoming. The interview is conducted in a classical manner: 5 min warm-up, 10 min for some behavioural questions and the rest is reserved for technical part and some Q&A at the end.
This is an online programming test. The algorithmic problem of Bytedance is much more difficult than other companies. There are a lot of dynamic programming questions, and there are two dynamic programming questions out of the four questions, and the time limit is two hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Leetcode simple level questions.
2. The pass rate is 44.4%. A simulation question is given to an array. If the current element is the smallest in the queue, dequeue, if not, move to the end of the queue.
3. Find the longest descending subsequence for an array consisting of letters, and return the length and sequence. It seems that if the length is equal, it should be returned in lexicographic order.
4. Find the number of subsequences where the maximum value-minimum value <k for an array.