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Data Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

August 1, 2025
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I've currently gone through two technical rounds and am waiting for the next hiring manager round.

There should be a total of three rounds:

  • Two technical
  • One hiring manager

Questions

The first round was pure SQL coding. I went through three SQL questions on HackerRank. The difficulty was at most medium.

The second round was based on my resume experience. We covered streaming processing and Kafka understanding, followed by questions on optimizing Kafka consumer lagging and data skewness issues in Spark.

For the remaining 30 minutes, we went through a simple SQL question, a simple Python question (not even an algorithm question), and a system design question in brief.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the TikTok Data Engineer role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

14%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive57%
Neutral43%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for TikTok's Data Engineer interview process in San Jose, California.