Solicité el puesto en persona. Acudí a una entrevista en TikTok (Sídney) en jul 2025
Entrevista
A few verbal technical questions about networking, OS, databases and computer architecture, a few questions about my internship experience, about what I did there, my skills learned and experiences gained. Then they gave me 1 leetcode question, a few other cohort mates received 2 questions. Answered leetcode question efficiently.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en TikTok (San Jose, CA)
Entrevista
First interview round scheduled after passing the OA. It was a DP problem that required traveling to the bottom right of a mxn grid. I explored options such as BFS and DFS before landing on the optimal solution of DP;
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
They asked a follow up for if your path had to cross through a certain point on this grid.
resume deep dive and 1 leetcode medium, asked about caching basics and cpu scheduling algorithms, along with past work experience. 15 mins of resume discussion followed by 30 mins of leetcode
The interviewer does not look very lively. I interviewed for the Recommendation System Infra team. They very heavy on Leetcode and C++, no behavioural question. I stumbled on it and did not pass.