I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at TikTok (Bellevue, WA)
Interview
It was good, interviewer was also good, however got rejection in 3hours even after solving interview properly and correctly. The process was similar to description found regarding this position anywhere online
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I first got a leetcode medium question on hackerrank with testcases, to find a path from given source to destination, with obstacles and print the path. Then 30 mins discussion on NLP, Transformer, BERT etc.
three rounds, each has coding + ml basic + resume related questions
understand all the details in resume is important, since might go very deep down the project you have worked on
The first round was mainly a CV walkthrough.
The second round focused in depth on one specific project.
Both rounds also included LeetCode medium-level problems.
The third round was with the hiring manager with both project and problems for their business.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at TikTok (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2026
Interview
one hour first round tiktok usds phone screen interview. past projects questions, leetcode mid questions, and machine learning, deep learning, large language model questions. And then ask the interviewer questions.
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