Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at TikTok with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 30% positive. To compare, the company-average is 37.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 449 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at TikTok overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at TikTok as a Software Engineer according to 449 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 29%
One on one interview: 27%
Phone interview: 24%
Presentation: 5%
Background check: 5%
Other: 3%
Personality test: 3%
Drug test: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Group panel interview: 1%
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I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at TikTok (Singapore) in Sep 2021
Interview
I interviewed for Tiktok in October 2021. There were three round of technical interviews described as below:
Round 1 : Coding interview. After a brief introduction I was asked two coding questions to be solved in one hour. The interviewer was good, he made me quite comfortable and the session interactive. I solved both the questions, and he did help me a bit with the second one.
Result turn around time : 24 hours.
Round 2 : System design + projects worked on so far.
Result turn around time: 24 hours.
Round 3: Last round with Lead engineer. It was a mix of culture fit interview , technical questions, system design and coding.
Result turn around time : 1 week.
I did well in the interviews technically and I still wonder why I got rejected. I totally respect the decision of the company but, I'm disappointed that I was not given any feedback so that I can work on the points, if I find them to be valid. I only got am automated rejection email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All the coding questions asked were available on leetcode. It would be unfair to expose the exact questions, so summarising the topics covered in each round.
Round 1 : Trees and Math problem. Medium difficulty ones in leetcode.
Round 2 : System design + projects worked on so far.
Questions on distributed systems, best practices, unit and integration testing, transaction management and questions on some of the common problems faced in a distributed environment. Some of these questions are abstract and open ended. It helps if you can give examples and answer.
Round 3: Culture fit questions designing some features of a real world system like twitter, databases and designing a cache with some special features. We had to write a pseudo code.
Tackling the coding round was intense, kicking off with a question about counting distinct island shapes in a grid. The second challenge involved maximizing a sum without using adjacent elements, which really tested my problem-solving skills. About two minutes in, it hit me — this was a problem I had practiced on prachub.com just days before. The final question required implementing stacks and calculating the streaming median. After the technical rounds and a brief behavioral interview, I received an offer, which I happily accepted.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at TikTok
Interview
- recruiter asked me to speak in Chinese for latter half of screen
- 1st round was algo interview
- 2nd round was algo and system design
- didn't move forward after second round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- 1st round was simple 1D dp problem
- 2nd round was graph problem (Djikstra's) and ML system design
2 rounds coding a lot of background questions very strange behavior from interviewer camera was off and asked questions in mandarin, leetcode medium-hard and very very slow communication from recruiters based in asia for an english role