TikTok

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - San Jose, California

June 1, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Brainstorm with the interviewer and use Claude/GPT/whatever AI tools you want to use to prototype a feature within 1 hour. Write a prompt and use Claude code or Cursor to vibe-code it then.

Questions

How to implement a new feature for their existing feature.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 11 interview experiences for the TikTok Software Engineer (Internship) role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

18%

Pass Rate

TikTok's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in San Jose, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive36%

Neutral64%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for TikTok's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in San Jose, California.

TikTok Interview Questions

Subarray Sum Equals K

Medium

Determine the total number of continuous subarrays within a given array that sum up to a specific target value, k.

ArraysSliding Windows

Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

Medium

Find the length of the longest substring within a given string that contains no repeating characters. The substring must be contiguous.

StringsSliding Windows

Generate Parentheses

Medium

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