Candidatei-me online. O processo levou 3 semanas. Fui entrevistado pela TikTok (Londres, Inglaterra) em jun. de 2022
Entrevista
I applied directly and the recruiter sent me an invitation for a technical interview directly (skipping the screening call).
I did well in the interview and answered all of the questions. Few days later I got the automated rejection email with no feedback.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
ML: how would you design a recommender system for TikTok feed? we talked for half an hour about candidate generation and ranking and how to scale this.
What metrics would you use for evaluating candidates generation step? the answer is recall.
Coding interview: Reverse a linked list, and reverse a section of the linked list given two indices.
Fiz uma entrevista na empresa TikTok (San Jose, CA).
Entrevista
three rounds, each has coding + ml basic + resume related questions
understand all the details in resume is important, since might go very deep down the project you have worked on
The first round was mainly a CV walkthrough.
The second round focused in depth on one specific project.
Both rounds also included LeetCode medium-level problems.
The third round was with the hiring manager with both project and problems for their business.
Candidatei-me por meio de recrutador(a). O processo levou 1 semana. Fui entrevistado pela TikTok (San Jose, CA) em mar. de 2026
Entrevista
one hour first round tiktok usds phone screen interview. past projects questions, leetcode mid questions, and machine learning, deep learning, large language model questions. And then ask the interviewer questions.