Not a lot of updates. interviewer was visibly impatient and didn’t comprehend English well. Overall experience as a candidate was one of the worst in my opinion. They also don’t provide prompt updates and are often out of touch in the entire hiring process
It is a highly technical interview, with coding sessions that need to be run and checking the results.
It is common to have weedend and evening meetings with asian teams.
They tend to speak chinese during interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ML basics; past experience; why you left current role.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok in Aug 2025
Interview
Interviewer was helpful and provided tips along the way. She also allowed me to run and test whether my code works. This is followed by a resume deep dive with general questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked 2 different Leetcode medium DP questions and let you run your code