Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at ByteDance as 25% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.75 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Software Engineer and Community Manager rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for CCM Specialist and Community Manager roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at ByteDance takes an average of 10 days when considering 4 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for CCM Specialist had the quickest hiring process (on average 10 days), whereas CCM Specialist roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 10 days).
1. algorithm coding, print the right side of a binary tree
2. short url system design, change the long url to short url, questions about short url generation, how to redirect, how to recycle invalid url.
3. project experience questions
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at ByteDance in Oct 2021
Interview
Started with quick self-introduction, then moved on to technical questions focusing on very detailed knowledge, including hand crafting a SQL query without looking up references, and ended with an algorithm question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a SQL query looking up specific entries without looking up language reference.
all leetcode medium, merge two sorted linked list, follow up is merge sort. the other round was meeting rooms I and II. two coding rounds back to back. i did not do well