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.
If you don't care about your career, it is an amazing place. It pays your bills.
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.
They would take this advice as every feedback I gave in my three years there, so I preferred to save my energy.
The recruiter sent me a message via LinkedIn, through which I shared my resume. Afterwards, I had about a 20-minute conversation with the recruiter. We discussed basic interview topics, including upcoming vacation plans and salary.
All interviews were conducted via Zoom over three rounds. The first round was a screening call, the second with a peer, and the third with the hiring manager. A recruiter from APAC handled all communications. Except for the final round, all results
Resume and project questions first. General testing questions (like testing frameworks). Finally, LeetCode-style questions in the last 15 minutes (did not actually code; only had time for intuitions).
The recruiter sent me a message via LinkedIn, through which I shared my resume. Afterwards, I had about a 20-minute conversation with the recruiter. We discussed basic interview topics, including upcoming vacation plans and salary.
All interviews were conducted via Zoom over three rounds. The first round was a screening call, the second with a peer, and the third with the hiring manager. A recruiter from APAC handled all communications. Except for the final round, all results
Resume and project questions first. General testing questions (like testing frameworks). Finally, LeetCode-style questions in the last 15 minutes (did not actually code; only had time for intuitions).