I applied online. I interviewed at ByteDance (Singapura) in Nov 2025
Interview
Asked about some basics of LLMs, project management case study and finally Chinese understanding and speaking test. LLM-wise was asked about transformers. Project management you have to practice case studies to perform well. Chinese test is somewhat difficult especially in the context of SG but manageable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between a transformer and [some other AI architecture-related topics]
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at ByteDance (Singapura) in Nov 2025
Interview
The interview was about 2 Leetcode medium questions, but the interviewer looks quite tired, and did not provide hints when I was stuck. Overall the experience is not quite smooth.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A permutation perm of n integers of all the integers in the range [1, n] can be represented as a string s of length n - 1 where:
s[i] == 'I' if perm[i] < perm[i + 1], and
s[i] == 'D' if perm[i] > perm[i + 1].
Given a string s, reconstruct the lexicographically smallest permutation perm and return it.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at ByteDance in May 2024
Interview
Leetcode 2 rounds, 1 system design round , 1 behavioral round, and 1 round with manager. standard tech interview process in the industry. nothing noteworthy. just grind leetcode for a few months