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      Software Engineer Interview

      May 4, 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at TikTok

      Interview

      Very bad communications. After I passed the initial round, I was moved onto another round of interview. When I passed the second round of interview to move to "final round of interview", they did not respond for a month. When I sent couple emails to check on status as I had other interviews that I needed to finish and schedule along, I received no response. After about a month, they just informed me that I passed the last round but was put on hold due to their hiring and acquisition-related issues. After about another month after, I did 3rd round of interview with a hiring manager, I believe. The manager specifically told me to just stop explaining my thought process and algorithm and just write your code. I did well for the coding part but could not answer some of the questions he asked well. I got a feedback that they would like to interview one more time. I couldn't solve the problem given. I think it was one of the toughest problems. After such a long interview process, I just received an email telling me that I got rejected without any additional feedback. Afterwards, I received couple other recruiter emails from Tiktok and, then, was informed that they saw my previous history of interview and would not move forward when I scheduled the calls. In general, I could see that the culture is probably really bad at the company.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I cannot remember the exact questions but similar to leetcode questions and some distributed systems questions.
      Answer question
      5

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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 11, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at TikTok

      Interview

      2 rounds coding a lot of background questions very strange behavior from interviewer camera was off and asked questions in mandarin, leetcode medium-hard and very very slow communication from recruiters based in asia for an english role

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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 3, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at TikTok (San Francisco, CA)

      Interview

      OA - 1 arrays Medium, 1 Trie Hard. I had 45 minutes to complete that. I was able to do the medium in about 15-20 minutes but I am not that great with trie ds so I was not able to finish.

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      Question 1

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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 10, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Singapore
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok (Singapore) in Jun 2026

      Interview

      1 round of tech interview where i was asked basic tech questions and given a leetcode question to solve. total was around 1 hour. interviewer did not seem happy with my answer and time complexity.

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