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Data Engineer Interview Experience

April 12, 2026
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

First round of the tech interview: 3 questions, 1 SQL hard, 1 SQL medium, and 1 brain teaser. The interviewer asked me to code in a notepad and insisted my solution was wrong. As I couldn't run the code in an IDE, I couldn't prove my code was right. After my interview, I ran my code, and it was working perfectly well.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 53 interview experiences for the TikTok Data Engineer role.

Success Rate

9%
Pass Rate

TikTok's interview process for their Data Engineer roles is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive49%
Neutral38%
Negative13%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for TikTok's Data Engineer interview process.

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