The process was a round of DSA, a systems design round, and a hiring manager round. The interviewer was Chinese and couldn't understand a lot of the things that I was explaining. The first round was supposed to be DSA, but we did forty minutes of a resume deep dive. The interviewer grilled me on systems design, including scalability, caching, sharding, concurrency, and async, as well as AI frameworks like MCP, RAG, and skill.
There was a DSA question: container with most water, which was super easy.
The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the TikTok Software Engineer role in San Diego, California.
TikTok's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Diego, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for TikTok's Software Engineer interview process in San Diego, California.