I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok (Durham, NC) in Oct 2024
Interview
OA followed by interviews, got to round 2, told there's no more opening. Interview consists of pair-programming questions on leetcode problems. Feishu meeting was used, and it depends on the interviewer how you share your code.
OA-VO1-VO2
OA: including 4 ez-medium leetcode problems
VO1: discussed personal experience first, then a ez-medium leetcode problem with special background, best solution is prefix sum
VO2: disscussed personal experience first, then a medium leetcode problem, best solution is backtracking
1.reach out with hr email but no coding part.
2.1st interview from beijing site, dive deep to my specific project, two medium leetcode problems
3.2 st interview form beijing site
The interview process is organized into three progressively challenging rounds: the first session focuses on problem-solving with a balanced mix of medium-difficulty and hard LeetCode questions, the second round escalates to exclusively hard-level LeetCode problems that probe algorithmic depth, while the third and final stage is a comprehensive behavioral interview assessing teamwork, communication style, and cultural fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
greedy+binary search, mid question, and an array hard question
