I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok
Interview
Contacted by a recruiter and scheduled a virtual on-site interview. I know I didn't do well for that interview because I could not answer some questions about a project I did 3 years ago. Then I was ghosted about two or three weeks and got a rejection letter.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Spent about 40 min discussing about a project which I forgot lots of the details. Then asked LRU cache for coding question.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at TikTok
Interview
- recruiter asked me to speak in Chinese for latter half of screen
- 1st round was algo interview
- 2nd round was algo and system design
- didn't move forward after second round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- 1st round was simple 1D dp problem
- 2nd round was graph problem (Djikstra's) and ML system design
2 rounds coding a lot of background questions very strange behavior from interviewer camera was off and asked questions in mandarin, leetcode medium-hard and very very slow communication from recruiters based in asia for an english role
OA - 1 arrays Medium, 1 Trie Hard. I had 45 minutes to complete that. I was able to do the medium in about 15-20 minutes but I am not that great with trie ds so I was not able to finish.