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      Software Engineer Interview

      Oct 29, 2020
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at TikTok

      Interview

      Kind of unfortunate because the process started off strong. 1. I had an initial phone call with the recruiter who was very friendly and was very helpful in telling me about the team. 2. First coding round interview: Interviewer was absolutely great, I worked through the two coding questions in the allotted time. 3. Second coding round interview: Although the interviewer was very nice and assured me to relax, he wasn't the most helpful in guiding me through the questions. 4. Third coding round interview: This is when it went downhill. Not only was my interview scheduled for 10PM at night, but there was A LOT of misunderstandings due to language barrier. For the binary tree coding question, I was led to believe the input was an int array because the problem he copied over explicitly had int arrays. It wasn't until MUCH later he told me that the input was just a regular TreeNode. I wasted so much time. Also tried to talk to me in Chinese but I have never interviewed in Chinese before.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What are some projects you have worked on?
      Answer question
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      Jun 11, 2026
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      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

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      2 rounds coding a lot of background questions very strange behavior from interviewer camera was off and asked questions in mandarin, leetcode medium-hard and very very slow communication from recruiters based in asia for an english role

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      Jun 3, 2026
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      San Francisco, CA
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      Neutral experience
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      OA - 1 arrays Medium, 1 Trie Hard. I had 45 minutes to complete that. I was able to do the medium in about 15-20 minutes but I am not that great with trie ds so I was not able to finish.

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      Jun 10, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Singapura
      No offer
      Positive experience
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      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok (Singapura) in Jun 2026

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      1 round of tech interview where i was asked basic tech questions and given a leetcode question to solve. total was around 1 hour. interviewer did not seem happy with my answer and time complexity.

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