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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Diego, California

August 3, 2026
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

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.

Questions

There was a DSA question: container with most water, which was super easy.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the TikTok Software Engineer role in San Diego, California.

Success Rate

0%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive0%
Neutral67%
Negative33%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for TikTok's Software Engineer interview process in San Diego, California.

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