the interview start from the introduction of the interviewer. Then there are four session for me. including the self-introduction, project discussion, coding, and ask questions. we do not spend much time on projects, I just introduced briefly about my projects, and the interviews ask some basic question. Coding question has the difficulty level of easy-medium.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked about the programming language, how I designed the algorithm, any package I use. In the thrid sessionm, I was asked about some basic knowledge, probalistic questions, and a live coding.
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 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.