ByteDance

Virtual interview. Technical question with a lot of abstractions. Very vague question; know the basics. Part design, part implementation. Can be done in Chinese or English. Interviewed from a different time zone.

Applied online. No phone screen, the recruiter just told me to show up on a given day without telling me what the interview was about. Turns out this was the onsite round. Asked for a GCal invite to add to my calendar, the recruiter just sent me the

The interviewer was from China. There was a huge language barrier, and I couldn’t understand any of the questions. I work with developers with accents all the time and never run into this issue.