ByteDance

Machine Learning Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

October 1, 2025

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Process

1st round: LeetCode + ML system design (oral)

2nd round: Resume walk-through + ML system design (NLP) (coding)

HM round: Resume walk-through + introduce the team.

HR round: Talk about the offer.

Questions

Design a Crawler Detection system

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ByteDance Interview Questions

LRU Cache

Medium

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

Linked ListsDesign

Remove Duplicate Letters

Medium

Given a string, remove duplicate letters so that each letter appears only once. Ensure the resulting string is the smallest in lexicographical order among all possible results.

StringsGreedy AlgorithmsStacks

Smallest Subsequence of Distinct Characters

Medium

Find the lexicographically smallest subsequence of distinct characters from a given string. You need to ensure each character appears only once and the relative order is maintained.

StringsGreedy AlgorithmsStacks