ByteDance

Software Engineer Interview Experience - Singapore, Singapore

June 1, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The first round was a technical interview hosted over a collaborative IDE.

I was asked technical questions on the language I chose, followed by a coding problem.

There were supposedly three more technical rounds, but I did not pass.

Questions

What is the difference between a normal and an arrow function?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 45 interview experiences for the ByteDance Software Engineer role in Singapore, Singapore.

Success Rate

18%

Pass Rate

ByteDance's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Singapore, Singapore is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive44%

Neutral31%

Negative24%

Candidates reported having good feelings for ByteDance's Software Engineer interview process in Singapore, Singapore.

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