Software Development Engineer Interview Experience - United States
July 1, 2025
Positive ExperienceNo Offer
Process
There are four rounds: three technical rounds and one hiring manager round.
- Coding: Two questions, medium level.
- Coding: Three questions (one easy, two medium).
- System design: Easy level.
- Hiring manager round.
Questions
- One BFS question and one DFS question (combination).
- Three consecutive questions that should use sorting and a min-heap.
- Design a Flink job that works on a sample joiner for two streams: one from a prediction stream and a user action data stream.
- Questions about resume and project experiences, with a deep dive into ML/AI related projects (which I do not have from my professional career).
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the TikTok Software Development Engineer role in United States.
Success Rate
20%
Pass Rate
TikTok's interview process for their Software Development Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Positive60%
Neutral40%
Negative0%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for TikTok's Software Development Engineer interview process in United States.
TikTok Work Experiences
4.0
Good Benefits, Late Nights
Software Development Engineer • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
October 8, 2021
Pros: Good benefits, such as network reimbursement.
Cons: Work time will be late, and most of the meetings happen at night.
5.0
Easy Platform, Busy Hr
Software Engineer(Internship) • Former Employee
Remote
December 14, 2022
Pros: A nice communication platform, and easy to use.
Cons: Too many employees, and HR is too busy.
3.0
Use this company to understand how corporate works
Quality Assurance • Former Employee
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
December 3, 2025
Pros: People get excited when you say that you work at TikTok.
If you are lucky, colleagues can be the only thing that saves you from giving your notice after 6 months.
Free lunch.
Office is not the worst.
It is a good first work experience, and it makes you be very aware of red flags for future opportunities.
* Health insurance + dental
If you don't care about your career, it is an amazing place. It pays your bills.
Cons: There are no real opportunities to grow, no matter how good you are at your job.
They will fire you with everyone else if they want to get rid of the project you are working on, even if you have an amazing performance review.
Everything changes all the time, and they ask you to be resilient.
Everyone is frustrated and praying to get fired to get the money and leave.
- 4.0Good Benefits, Late NightsSoftware Development Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesOctober 8, 2021Pros: Good benefits, such as network reimbursement.Cons: Work time will be late, and most of the meetings happen at night.
- 5.0Easy Platform, Busy HrSoftware Engineer(Internship) • Former EmployeeRemoteDecember 14, 2022Pros: A nice communication platform, and easy to use.Cons: Too many employees, and HR is too busy.
- 3.0Use this company to understand how corporate worksQuality Assurance • Former EmployeeDublin, Dublin, IrelandDecember 3, 2025Pros: People get excited when you say that you work at TikTok. If you are lucky, colleagues can be the only thing that saves you from giving your notice after 6 months. Free lunch. Office is not the worst. It is a good first work experience, and it makes you be very aware of red flags for future opportunities. * Health insurance + dental If you don't care about your career, it is an amazing place. It pays your bills.Cons: There are no real opportunities to grow, no matter how good you are at your job. They will fire you with everyone else if they want to get rid of the project you are working on, even if you have an amazing performance review. Everything changes all the time, and they ask you to be resilient. Everyone is frustrated and praying to get fired to get the money and leave.
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