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 Sep 2025
Interview
Went through two out of three interviews with TikTok, in both they asked basic concurrency, networking and language specific questions as I was going for a C++ role.
They also asked Leetcode Medium questions in both interviews.
Really poor organisation from the HR team, with the main online interview being performed in their car with no camera. Maybe this was an outlier from others but still hurt my experience
I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok (Sydney)
Interview
A technical interview with a medium level Leetcode question regarding string manipulation. The interviewer is from the Singapore office. It first started by asking about experience in great detail. The interview lasts for 1 hour exactly.
