The interviewer was very patient. When I got stuck on coding questions, he gave me many tips.
The interview questions were not difficult, just some basic transformer/ attention mechanism questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Transformer/ attention mechanism questions,
Deep neural networks,
combination of words in a wordlist
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at TikTok (San Jose, CA)
Interview
Final round: Resume deep dive, implement attention (transformer), leetcode medium.
The interview question is not hard. You just need to prepare and review the fundamental ML models and their implementation code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Final round: Resume deep dive, implement attention (transformer), leetcode medium.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok in Dec 2023
Interview
Applied through referral thus did not do OA. Went through 3 rounds of inteviews. Each interview has 30 minutes of ML related questions and 30 minutes for leetcode medium Questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Describe attention mechanism
2. Max length of subarray with positive product (LC medium)