I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok (Mountain View, CA) in Aug 2020
Interview
I interviewed with TikTok in August 2020. I applied online and was contacted by the recruiter for the first technical round which was through Zoom and used an online coding platform. I was given LC hard. I didn't get the next round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Tell me about yourself
- Why TikTok?
- Leetcode Hard Question, optimize, explain time and space complexity for the solution.
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
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.
I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok (Singapour) in Jun 2026
Interview
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.
