Very bad communications.
After I passed the initial round, I was moved onto another round of interview. When I passed the second round of interview to move to "final round of interview", they did not respond for a month. When I sent couple emails to check on status as I had other interviews that I needed to finish and schedule along, I received no response. After about a month, they just informed me that I passed the last round but was put on hold due to their hiring and acquisition-related issues. After about another month after, I did 3rd round of interview with a hiring manager, I believe. The manager specifically told me to just stop explaining my thought process and algorithm and just write your code. I did well for the coding part but could not answer some of the questions he asked well. I got a feedback that they would like to interview one more time. I couldn't solve the problem given. I think it was one of the toughest problems. After such a long interview process, I just received an email telling me that I got rejected without any additional feedback.
Afterwards, I received couple other recruiter emails from Tiktok and, then, was informed that they saw my previous history of interview and would not move forward when I scheduled the calls.
In general, I could see that the culture is probably really bad at the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I cannot remember the exact questions but similar to leetcode questions and some distributed systems questions.
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.