ByteDance·Software Engineer

ByteDance Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The interview I had in Java started with a long, involved problem that took a while just to fully understand.

The task felt similar to a task scheduler and pointed toward using a priority queue. After I got part of the way through, the interviewer mentioned that a TreeMap could also work, and I brought up an issue: TreeMap sorts by key, so the approach would need reconsideration if the ordering depended on values.

Then the discussion got a bit confusing when the interviewer asked how I would implement it in Java in the exact way they had in mind. He started coding in the IDE, but he couldn’t finish the implementation and that segment ended abruptly. What surprised me next was an SQL question, even

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