I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok in Jul 2025
Interview
Interview was mostly technical and some behavior questions. There are 6 interview rounds for this role and questions are based on how you handle certain cyber incident and what specifics indicate what kind of incident it is. But I couldn't go to next round of interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
given some logs and asked what kind of incident or anything suspicious is there?
cyber kill chain
any cyber incident you handled in the past and what approach you followed
Security Specialist,detection and response applicants have rated the interview process at TikTok with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 37.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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