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).
Two rounds of interviews. I was asked to do three leetcode medium coding tests. Then I was asked a general question: how to identify a user's interested topics as quickly as possible when he/she is new to an app.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to identify a user's interested topics as quickly as possible when he/she is new to an app ?
The interview had 3 rounds. the first round was technical and more on resume and OS concepts(Virtual Memory, what is a system call, how it works, MLFQ scheduling) and 1 coding (implement a deque) 2nd round was technical, what is a semaphore and 1 coding(using mutx and condition variable, code how semaphore) 3rd was manager, this is where it got really bad. I was not able to understand of half what he said. He spoke very fast and it was really tough for me to understand. lee so Resume round, felt more like a English communication round(trying to figure out what he is sayinG)
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at ByteDance (Singapur) in Nov 2022
Interview
Interviewed by a current employee, the whole process was in Chinese, and the interviewer did not ask for a self-introduction. Asked for coding questions but stopped me due to timing.