SRE/DevOps Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at TikTok with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 37.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at TikTok as a SRE/DevOps Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 40%
Skills test: 20%
Phone interview: 20%
Background check: 20%
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at TikTok (Singapore) in Dec 2022
Interview
3 rounds of technical interview and 2 rounds of HR interview. 3 rounds of techincal interview consists of 2 coding test on each round and 1 algorithm test. It is leet code easy and medium question. For algo test is Puzzle 9
Coding interviewer hit me with "what technical work have you done?" questions that I wasn't expecting since I was focused on coding. Coding was Leetcode. Similar to most tech companies, they want to see how you think. Unfortunately they did not warn me that speaking Mandarin was a "nice to have" skill.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at TikTok (Singapore) in Jan 2026
Interview
Technical Interview
1. Leetcode
2. Past experience
3. CS Trivia
And then just talked about CS stuff in general. The interview is conducted in Chinese as well, and I believe for many of the roles it is expected that you can speak a communicable amount of chinese
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What did you do in your past job?
Follow up details on my past job
Interview for New Grad SRE position
first: HR reachout on LinkedIn
Second & Third: 2 rounds tech interviews - leetcode & system design
p.s.: Interviewers are suprer nice
Result: Rejected
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
introduce yourself and leetcode question (medium) with a follow-up
system design