Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at ByteDance as 60% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.75 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Content Marketing Manager and Computational Linguist rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Computational Linguist and Modérateur roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at ByteDance takes an average of 12 days when considering 5 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Music Content and Community Manager had the quickest hiring process (on average 8 days), whereas Computational Linguist roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 14 days).
The company has 4 rounds and the first round being the phone interview, sencond round meeting the senior software engineer and the third round being the technical interview with the director of engineering. i have not reached the 4th round yet as of right now.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ByteDance (Jakarta) in Jan 2021
Interview
There were 4 steps to this interview. First is through HR via WhatsApp. Next is one of the CN lead, followed by a senior designer. Lastly is the head of Indonesia team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How can you improve the current social media design? What can you contribute? Along with a design test.
HR was nice and has enough knowledge to speak about the position details, talked about the company direction and more. Overall was a well put together talk and was fairly comfortable throughout.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basically asked me about how my experience can help their product grow.