I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at TikTok in June 2021
Interview
Invited to join the interview by a recruiter via email. After that I received an invitation to have a video call with a software engineering team member. After background introduction, the interviewer keep asking about my current company's business flow and logic. Its make me feel like he is a spy from the competitor and out of sudden the interviewer share me a technical questions in Chinese and wanted me to solve the question immediately (in pseudo code).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interviewer share a technical questions in Chinese.
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
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.
I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok (Singapore) in June 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.