Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at TikTok with 3.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at TikTok overall takes an average of 34 days.
Common stages of the interview process at TikTok as a Software Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
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Tackling the coding round was intense, kicking off with a question about counting distinct island shapes in a grid. The second challenge involved maximizing a sum without using adjacent elements, which really tested my problem-solving skills. About two minutes in, it hit me — this was a problem I had practiced on prachub.com just days before. The final question required implementing stacks and calculating the streaming median. After the technical rounds and a brief behavioral interview, I received an offer, which I happily accepted.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at TikTok (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2026
Interview
After a short introduction, we’ll jump into LeetCode practice. This is a classic medium-difficulty LeetCode sliding window problem. Then I was asked to come up with some test cases myself to verify the solution
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode question. Then try to improve time complexity.
I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok (Singapore) in Feb 2026
Interview
Had to go through an online interview which was conducted through lark. Started off with an introduction about myself, followed by projects done, usage of AI etc. Interview consisted of 3 different coding questions.