I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2025
Interview
Decent process, interviewers were mostly chinese first speaking so that would be an advantage if you knew that. Asked simple LC medium questions Graph, Stack, String etc, sometimes they would also get overseas people to interview you which created a language barrier
I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok (New York, NY) in Feb 2025
Interview
There were three rounds of interviews, starting with an initial recruiter screening, followed by a conversation with another team member, and concluding with a final interview with someone from the team you would ultimately join.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What I believed TikTok's greatest advantage is in the market.
2 interviews: the first one was mainly motivational (walk me through your resume, etc.), and two case study questions (they provide you with hints in the question), while the second one was mainly case study questions