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Data Engineer Interview Experience - Canada

January 1, 2021

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Contacted by recruiter via email, followed by a short phone call about the job and interview process.

The first interview is a one-hour video technical interview with a software engineer.

Questions

Many questions about big data processing technologies.

One coding question.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the TikTok Data Engineer role in Canada.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral50%

Negative0%

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

TikTok Work Experiences

Toxic Place and No Career Growth

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: They will provide good pay.

Cons: 1. Toxic Place and No Career Growth 2. Bad Leadership 3. You can find more mediocre engineers, and they only work with some tools and don't have solid experience and knowledge on building software or data systems from scratch. 4. No Learning Curve 5. Mediocre Team Leads who don't have any in-depth knowledge on any programming languages and just manage.

Toxic Place and No Career Growth

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: They will provide good pay.

Cons: 1. Toxic Place and No Career Growth 2. Bad Leadership 3. You can find more mediocre engineers, and they only work with some tools and don't have solid experience and knowledge on building software or data systems from scratch. 4. No Learning Curve 5. Mediocre Team Leads who don't have any in-depth knowledge on any programming languages and just manage.

Good Arguments, Weak Tech Skills

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Singapore, Singapore

Pros: Learn how to argue very well.

Cons: Don’t learn a lot of technical skills.

Good Arguments, Weak Tech Skills

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Singapore, Singapore

Pros: Learn how to argue very well.

Cons: Don’t learn a lot of technical skills.

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Data Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Good, free food; great cafeteria.

Cons: Bad work-life balance, bad culture.

Data Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Good, free food; great cafeteria.

Cons: Bad work-life balance, bad culture.

Toxic Place and No Career Growth

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: They will provide good pay.

Cons: 1. Toxic Place and No Career Growth 2. Bad Leadership 3. You can find more mediocre engineers, and they only work with some tools and don't have solid experience and knowledge on building software or data systems from scratch. 4. No Learning Curve 5. Mediocre Team Leads who don't have any in-depth knowledge on any programming languages and just manage.

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Toxic Place and No Career Growth
Data Engineer • Current Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
April 8, 2025
Pros: They will provide good pay.
Cons: 1. Toxic Place and No Career Growth 2. Bad Leadership 3. You can find more mediocre engineers, and they only work with some tools and don't have solid experience and knowledge on building software or data systems from scratch. 4. No Learning Curve 5. Mediocre Team Leads who don't have any in-depth knowledge on any programming languages and just manage.

Good Arguments, Weak Tech Skills

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Singapore, Singapore

Pros: Learn how to argue very well.

Cons: Don’t learn a lot of technical skills.

3.0
Good Arguments, Weak Tech Skills
Data Engineer • Current Employee
Singapore, Singapore
April 22, 2023
Pros: Learn how to argue very well.
Cons: Don’t learn a lot of technical skills.

11

Data Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Good, free food; great cafeteria.

Cons: Bad work-life balance, bad culture.

1.0
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Data Engineer • Current Employee
San Jose, California, United States
April 14, 2024
Pros: Good, free food; great cafeteria.
Cons: Bad work-life balance, bad culture.

TikTok Interview Questions

Generate Parentheses

Given a number 'n', generate all possible well-formed (balanced) parentheses strings of length 2*n. For instance, if n=3, you need to create all valid combinations like '((()))', '(()())', etc.

RecursionStrings

Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

Find the length of the longest substring within a given string that contains no repeating characters. The substring must be contiguous.

StringsTwo PointersSliding Windows

Search in Rotated Sorted Array

You're given a sorted array that has been rotated, and a target value. Find the index of the target value in the rotated array, or return -1 if it's not present.

ArraysBinary Search

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