I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok (Singapur) in Mar 2023
Interview
HR screening and call, followed by 3 rounds, which are usually deep dive into past projects/work and Leetcode questions, although there may be system design as well. There is then one last behavioral screening round. Some interviewers are friendly, others are just rude. Most of them prefer to interview in Mandarin, which makes explaining difficult if you are not proficient at the language, or be stuck in communicating with broken English.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode medium to hard, questions on binary search, stack (e.g. valid parenthesis string with wildcard), linked lists (e.g. LRU cache, merge K sorted), graphs (e.g. count islands) and DP (e.g. decode ways). Lots of grinding needed to be familiar with the algorithms as you have to answer 2-3 questions in each round so you have to be fast.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at TikTok in May 2023
Interview
Two interviews got rescheduled, one interviewer was rude and condescending, three interviewers showed up late, and the fourth never showed up. Entire interview process seemed like a mess, at least the recruiters were nice though
It takes a really long time to schedule interviews with lots of down time in between. Interviews kept getting rescheduled too. Mostly conversational-technical stuff, some ds&a questions towards the end of the process.