tiktok recruitment/hiring event, after resume screening, they will notify you on moving to the interview stage where there are 3 rounds back to back across 3 hours. each round consists of system design and live coding (leetcode medium)
OA: There are five questions in total. The SQL question will use groupby and CTE. The coding question are medium level array and string questions. The sliding window will be tested. (you won't pass all the test if your solution is O(n2)
I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok (Los Angeles, CA)
Interview
The first round is online assessment which has two questions about the theory, one SQL, two algorithms. The two algorithms I did were all about stirng manipulation. I think the emphasis is on the code implementation rather than the logic.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first algorithm question was sorting the list by alphabet ascending order.