J'ai postulé en personne. J'ai passé un entretien chez TikTok (Sydney) en juil. 2025
Entretien
A few verbal technical questions about networking, OS, databases and computer architecture, a few questions about my internship experience, about what I did there, my skills learned and experiences gained. Then they gave me 1 leetcode question, a few other cohort mates received 2 questions. Answered leetcode question efficiently.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez TikTok (San Jose, CA)
Entretien
First interview round scheduled after passing the OA. It was a DP problem that required traveling to the bottom right of a mxn grid. I explored options such as BFS and DFS before landing on the optimal solution of DP;
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
They asked a follow up for if your path had to cross through a certain point on this grid.
The interviewer does not look very lively. I interviewed for the Recommendation System Infra team. They very heavy on Leetcode and C++, no behavioural question. I stumbled on it and did not pass.
resume deep dive and 1 leetcode medium, asked about caching basics and cpu scheduling algorithms, along with past work experience. 15 mins of resume discussion followed by 30 mins of leetcode