I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at TikTok (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2024
Interview
I participated in a Hacker Rank-style online assessment featuring two dynamic programming and graph theory problems, akin to LeetCode hard challenges. Months have passed without any response. Extremely difficult and unforgiving amount of time to do the challenges.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hackerrank style OA, has 2 DP and Graph Leetcode hards.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at TikTok (Zhuhai, Guangdong)
Interview
Went through the first and second round, with the second round interviewer busying with other work and decline inmmeditely after the interview, gussing not intented to hire at the first place.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at TikTok in Jan 2024
Interview
1st round - Asked 2 algorithm questions(medium + follow up hard) and talked about past project experience.
2nd round - Asked System Design. Interviewer asked some reasons, details and trade offs.
A bit hard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
System Design - Twitter: draw data flow, core components, api design