ByteDance

Software Engineer Interview Experience - Australia

October 22, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Resume screening, online assessments (for some technical roles), and multiple rounds of interviews.

The process can involve phone, video, or in-person interviews with a mix of one-on-one and panel formats.

Questions

Algorithm question: Given an array, build a binary tree with minimum height (recursive and non-recursive).

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the ByteDance Software Engineer role in Australia.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

ByteDance's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Australia is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for ByteDance's Software Engineer interview process in Australia.

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