I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2024
Interview
Introduce yourself and talk about your resume. Then, start the coding interview process. In general, the coding interview include 2 mid problems or 1 hard problem. If there is some time left, you can ask some questions towards the interviewer.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at TikTok (Sydney) in Mar 2024
Interview
- Resume (via refferal)
- OA (3 weeks upon resume submission). 2 med lc, 1 hard lc.
- Got an email from HR, told me that there would be 4 more technical rounds.
- First 1:1 technical round: 10-12 questions about recent experience, fundamental internet network knowledge, SQL. 1 easy-med coding question.
- Second 1:1 technical round: Similarly, this time the interviewer focused on my knowledge and concepts written in my cv: OS, message broker, elastic search. 2 easy-med coding questions. (1 week from 1st round)
Got a rejection mail. Perhaps, the coding round was not smooth, I took a moment to realize where I was wrong, also I was not too good at message broker.
If I knew some Mandarin, it could be a huge advantages.
I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok (Sydney) in May 2024
Interview
They first asked some questions related to my current job and then gave a leetcode medium question to solve. Asked a lot of SQL questions such as "How do I make an SQL query more efficient?". The interviewer I had was nice.