SWE New Grad 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 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 37.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SWE New Grad roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 8 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 SWE New Grad according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
Background check: 11%
Personality test: 11%
One on one interview: 11%
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Assessment includes 5 multiple-choice items and 2 LeetCode-style problems on the more difficult side, featuring one graph algorithm question and tasks covering core OOP principles—encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and basic design reasoning, and debugging.
Terrible interview process. Interviewer came 15 mins late and did not even introduce himself. Could not understand his English. Not even sure about his own questions and seems like his English was too poor to conduct an interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to solve this without using Hadoop, but the answer is to use Hadoop.
took a while to respond during each round, got leetcode mediums one was 221 and the other 79. interviewer was nice but did not talk or collaborate a lot, had to ask for feedback in the end.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about how you chose a particular database for your project?
Asked some questions regarding database (B+ tree), gRPC mechanism. Also asked a coding question related to DP.
Asked some questions regarding database (B+ tree), gRPC mechanism. Also asked a coding question related to DP.
Asked some questions regarding database (B+ tree), gRPC mechanism. Also asked a coding question related to DP.