ByteDance Software Engineer interview experience

In the first round, conducted in English with a white male interviewer, we started with a brief exchange on our backgrounds and then moved into coding for 45 minutes. The problem involved a transformation, and I verbally ran through test cases as I worked, and they all passed. After that, the interviewer asked how to do it in place, and we discussed the optimal solution. Because I spent too long on the initial test cases, I didn’t have time to run the follow-up tests, even though the interviewer seemed to understand what I meant and accepted the direction.

The last part of that hour was