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Graduate Software Engineer Interview Experience - India

February 1, 2024

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I got through into the coding interview, which had 3 questions.

They were equal to medium-level questions on LeetCode.

I did not make it past as I only got one right. Quite hard.

Questions

They asked me to create a cache in JavaScript based on a problem question.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the TikTok Graduate Software Engineer role in India.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for TikTok's Graduate Software Engineer interview process in India.

TikTok Work Experiences

Good Pay, Bad Balance

Senior Machine Learning Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Good pay and compensation, flexibility.

Cons: Bad work-life balance and timings.

Good Pay, Bad Balance

Senior Machine Learning Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Good pay and compensation, flexibility.

Cons: Bad work-life balance and timings.

Good Food, Terrible Balance

AR Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Food is good. Medical service is good.

Cons: No work-life balance at all. Late-night meetings until 9:30 PM.

Good Food, Terrible Balance

AR Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Food is good. Medical service is good.

Cons: No work-life balance at all. Late-night meetings until 9:30 PM.

Strong Learning Experience

Quality Analyst • Former Employee

Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Pros: A fast-paced environment with big changes can occur, offering opportunities to learn and increase competencies.

Cons: It takes some time to adjust to the fast pace, and pressure can come with it, but it makes sense with this environment.

Strong Learning Experience

Quality Analyst • Former Employee

Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Pros: A fast-paced environment with big changes can occur, offering opportunities to learn and increase competencies.

Cons: It takes some time to adjust to the fast pace, and pressure can come with it, but it makes sense with this environment.

Good Pay, Bad Balance

Senior Machine Learning Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Good pay and compensation, flexibility.

Cons: Bad work-life balance and timings.

3.0
Good Pay, Bad Balance
Senior Machine Learning Engineer • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
April 29, 2024
Pros: Good pay and compensation, flexibility.
Cons: Bad work-life balance and timings.

Good Food, Terrible Balance

AR Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Food is good. Medical service is good.

Cons: No work-life balance at all. Late-night meetings until 9:30 PM.

1.0
Good Food, Terrible Balance
AR Engineer • Current Employee
San Jose, California, United States
August 7, 2024
Pros: Food is good. Medical service is good.
Cons: No work-life balance at all. Late-night meetings until 9:30 PM.

Strong Learning Experience

Quality Analyst • Former Employee

Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Pros: A fast-paced environment with big changes can occur, offering opportunities to learn and increase competencies.

Cons: It takes some time to adjust to the fast pace, and pressure can come with it, but it makes sense with this environment.

4.0
Strong Learning Experience
Quality Analyst • Former Employee
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
March 29, 2024
Pros: A fast-paced environment with big changes can occur, offering opportunities to learn and increase competencies.
Cons: It takes some time to adjust to the fast pace, and pressure can come with it, but it makes sense with this environment.

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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