I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok (Sydney) in Oct 2024
Interview
First resume shortlisting. If your resume gets shortlisted, you will be called for the online coding test. On passing the online coding test, HR will schedule the DSA interviews. Each round is an eliminator round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round one - Online coding
Difficulty level - Leetcode medium
Round two - DSA round
Initial 10-15 discussion about the resume
Difficulty level - Leetcode medium and hard
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok (San Jose, CA)
Interview
First interview round scheduled after passing the OA. It was a DP problem that required traveling to the bottom right of a mxn grid. I explored options such as BFS and DFS before landing on the optimal solution of DP;
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked a follow up for if your path had to cross through a certain point on this grid.
resume deep dive and 1 leetcode medium, asked about caching basics and cpu scheduling algorithms, along with past work experience. 15 mins of resume discussion followed by 30 mins of leetcode
The interviewer does not look very lively. I interviewed for the Recommendation System Infra team. They very heavy on Leetcode and C++, no behavioural question. I stumbled on it and did not pass.