I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Technical screen over video chat (zoom?) Interviewer was from china team, strong accent Overall a great experience it was very well organized and interview was well-structured. Make sure to study basic data structures and do a couple basic system design questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Binary tree represented as an array, do binary tree operations
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.