I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at TikTok (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2026
Interview
This is Phone screen. After chatted with recruiter, they arranged the first round of interview. It's one hour interview including resume deep dive(20mins), coding (20mins) and ML basics (15 mins)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Started with resume deep dive questions. Asked details about past implementations.
A coding question: Min Stack
Then ask some basic questions about neuron network: batch norm, drop out, layer norm. Gradient descent
