I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at ByteDance (Beijing, Beijing) in Dec 2020
Interview
Three rounds of interview, focusing on algorithms and some foundamental knowledge, which include operating system, computer network and some implementation details about common data structures such as hashmap. The interviewer will guide you if you ask for help.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about binary tree, better practice them before interviewing.
Describe the most complex backend project you have taken charge of in the past. What is the business peak QPS? What technical bottlenecks did you encounter and how did you optimize them?
The interview process was fairly standard. They asked about technical skills, projects, and tested coding abilities. Overall, the communication went smoothly.
The interviewer was guiding throughout the process, helped debug the coding questions, and offered ideas to move forward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What’s the most complex or memorable online incident or piece of feedback you’ve experienced?
I completed an online OA with 5 MCQs and 2 coding questions: one on implementing a priority queue and the other on finding an answer using binary search. Easy problems on linear data structure
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I cant remember the question specifically, but both involve greedy algorithm with priority q and binary search.