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).
3 rounds of interviews with the last one being with an HR BP that barely spoke English. The whole process of interviews was unclear and they didn't provided a proper JD in English. It's really hard to know the team beforehand
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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at ByteDance (Pékin, Pékin) in May 2020
Interview
It was conducted online with Feishu. Interviewer was quite nice. It was a combination of product / business sense and strategies. No technical parts. And no behavioral questions. It was an internship but the interview felt more like a full-time level.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If the product wants to find out whether it is attracting more of the teenagers compared to other age groups, what would you do to find out?
3 technical + 1 HR round.
Some interviewers are nice, some are basically unprofessional.
Things like being late, not turning camera on, and not trying to clarify his questions.
My overall impression is that they are simply looking for someone who memorizes "concurrent programming in XXX", "5 ways to protect your service from huge traffic” and “Networking 101”. Read on these topics if you really want to apply.
They show little interest in system design and algorithm skills.
And yea got ghosted after the interview.
Can’t agree more on the comments around its non-employee centric culture.