tworounds with software engineer of the team. Leetcode questions around medium. Asked about background as well as gave context of the job. Smooth process with quick turnaround, HR was responsive.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok (Sydney) in Apr 2025
Interview
First round technical interview was a medium Leetcode done live. The answer involved turning a nested loop into a looped binary search.
We then moved on to a discussion of solving certain scaling and technical performance problems at the database and web layer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Then we moved on to a discussion of "scaling" and how to solve performance issues. The example used involved how to support and fix database hotspots or the "celebrity problem" with spotty demand.
First you apply and get an OA. If you score good enough (don't need perfect score), then you get the interview where they give you really hard questions. It depends on interviewer, but someone I knew got an easy string question.