they are very interested in you past project experience
care much about your last job performance and your title
and the reason why you leave or search for new job
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at ByteDance (San Jose, CA) in May 2025
Interview
Easy HR round, Second round was technical: LC hard. 40 mins total. 20 mins of general sweep/ood questions. Tree-heavy questions. Not from the LC question bank. The interviewer was friendly.
Started with HR call to talk about interview process.
Then after that was leetcode questions, the interview with team members and then hiring manager on technical questions and previous experience
Leetcode questions were medium to hard questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Previous experiences on resume, what did you build and how did you scale it