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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Italy

April 1, 2023

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Test on the Hacker Rank website. It consisted of completing 3 coding problem-solving exercises in a programming language of your choice and answering two theoretical questions:

The first on algorithms
The second on operating systems

Questions

Array vs. Linked List: Pros and Cons of the Two Data Structures

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the TikTok Software Engineer (Internship) role in Italy.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

TikTok's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in Italy is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Neutral100%

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Candidates reported having mixed feelings for TikTok's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in Italy.

TikTok Work Experiences

Good pay, good teammates, bad culture

Software Engineer (SWE II) • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: - Good pay - Free food - Great teammates - Funny environment - Good flexibility of PTO and leave

Cons: - Bad culture - PM driven - Engineers have no power - Brain gets burnt out even if you don't have much work - No one wants to work hard - No code review or effort to improve engineering

Good pay, good teammates, bad culture

Software Engineer (SWE II) • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: - Good pay - Free food - Great teammates - Funny environment - Good flexibility of PTO and leave

Cons: - Bad culture - PM driven - Engineers have no power - Brain gets burnt out even if you don't have much work - No one wants to work hard - No code review or effort to improve engineering

Good Pay, High Stress

Software Engineer • Current Employee

China, Maine, United States

November 1, 2023

Pros: High salary and life balance.

Cons: Stress, less communication, and being bad at relationships.

Good Pay, High Stress

Software Engineer • Current Employee

China, Maine, United States

November 1, 2023

Pros: High salary and life balance.

Cons: Stress, less communication, and being bad at relationships.

Good salary for entry-level, but lacks transparency

Quality Analyst • Current Employee

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Pros: Quickly growing tech environment, good salary, and bonus.

Cons: Rigid policies on vertical career development and horizontal role change. The quality analyst position has little to do with data analysis.

Good salary for entry-level, but lacks transparency

Quality Analyst • Current Employee

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Pros: Quickly growing tech environment, good salary, and bonus.

Cons: Rigid policies on vertical career development and horizontal role change. The quality analyst position has little to do with data analysis.

Good pay, good teammates, bad culture

Software Engineer (SWE II) • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: - Good pay - Free food - Great teammates - Funny environment - Good flexibility of PTO and leave

Cons: - Bad culture - PM driven - Engineers have no power - Brain gets burnt out even if you don't have much work - No one wants to work hard - No code review or effort to improve engineering

3.0
Good pay, good teammates, bad culture
Software Engineer (SWE II) • Current Employee
San Jose, California, United States
July 18, 2024
Pros: - Good pay - Free food - Great teammates - Funny environment - Good flexibility of PTO and leave
Cons: - Bad culture - PM driven - Engineers have no power - Brain gets burnt out even if you don't have much work - No one wants to work hard - No code review or effort to improve engineering

Good Pay, High Stress

Software Engineer • Current Employee

China, Maine, United States

November 1, 2023

Pros: High salary and life balance.

Cons: Stress, less communication, and being bad at relationships.

5.0
Good Pay, High Stress
Software Engineer • Current Employee
China, Maine, United States
November 1, 2023
Pros: High salary and life balance.
Cons: Stress, less communication, and being bad at relationships.

Good salary for entry-level, but lacks transparency

Quality Analyst • Current Employee

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Pros: Quickly growing tech environment, good salary, and bonus.

Cons: Rigid policies on vertical career development and horizontal role change. The quality analyst position has little to do with data analysis.

4.0
Good salary for entry-level, but lacks transparency
Quality Analyst • Current Employee
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
March 14, 2022
Pros: Quickly growing tech environment, good salary, and bonus.
Cons: Rigid policies on vertical career development and horizontal role change. The quality analyst position has little to do with data analysis.

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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