I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok in Jun 2025
Interview
Recruiter reached out on LinkedIn and scheduled a screening call. Then, met with a senior PM on the team, he went over my resume and asked me some advertising related questions. Followed by interviewing with the hiring manager a week later. This interview also do a brief review of my resume then went into a product sense interview. The interview wasnt particularly difficult but the interviewer was not listening nor taking notes either. The screening and first interview was great but the second interview experience was one of the worse I have. Late interviewer, unprepared, and uninterested in having a conversation - which is not a manager I'd want to have.
total 3 rounds, recruiter call, then
1. HM round, 2. Skip manager，3. Peer
second round get rescheduled and fast response.
most of them speak mandarin during interview
including BQ and case study.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you reduce false positives in our content moderation system?
They arranged 3 rounds of interviews with all team members, not the hiring manager. I felt like it was not the typical process because one of them said they were changing the direction of this role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A really technical case and how to solve the pain point.
There are in total 4rounds including 2 rounds with senior peers and 1 round with +1 and round with HR, not that difficult. But I think the experience match is most important……..
Product Manager 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 37% positive. To compare, the company-average is 37.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Product Manager roles take an average of 37 days to get hired, when considering 127 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 Product Manager according to 127 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 32%
Phone interview: 27%
Skills test: 16%
Personality test: 6%
Background check: 5%
Presentation: 5%
Group panel interview: 4%
Other: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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