Recruiter reach out, then phone screen with a interviewer from west coast. Leetcode type question, but a hard one. You need to give out the optimun solution instead of a working one. Notice, the interviewer only told me the quesiton orally, without an question description and any test cases.
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leetcode question, Word ladder. Can't remember which one, but go for the hard tag.
J'ai postulé via une autre source. J'ai passé un entretien chez TikTok (San Jose, CA) en déc. 2025
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Pre order traversal of tree, need to construct tree from list, no template given, got asked about my resume a lot, dive deep, asked about internship experience and research experience, relevant questions towards research
about my resume, bq questions, some fundamental questions, then a lc,
finally the qa part, but it does not go smoothly. I feel the interviewer did not want to talk to me much
OA, followed by 3 rounds of onsite interview, all three rounds are coding round, 2 medium and 1 hard leetcode level coding, and one of the round asked some full stack related questions
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hard leetcode level question, and project deep dive