i applied in october and i only did the oa. At the time I hadn't prepared much so obviously i wasnt going to do well. I had to code some programs and answer some questions.
Interviewer is being nice and ask questions to dive deep. The recruiter scheduled interview faster. The interview is round by round instead of 4 rounds on a same day. If you pass this round, the recruiter will schedule the next round for you. It is not like traditional virtual onsite interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
some CS basic knowledge, like network and data structure
I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok in Jan 2025
Interview
Applied through official website. The first two rounds were pleasant, each including a self intro, simple resume related questions, followed by two lc medium problems about graph/dfs/bfs. The interviewers were polite and nice.
The hm round was not as pleasant... It felt like he asked weird behavior questions. The coding problem was about tree—not hard, but the question itself was unclear and needed clarification.