ByteDance·Software Engineer

ByteDance Software Engineer interview experience

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Seattle, WAPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first interview felt strong and respectful—someone came prepared, let me introduce a research project, and also had a coding problem to solve.

The overall flow made me feel like they were tracking what I said and connecting it to the role.

Then the second interviewer’s approach was a lot less aligned. They hadn’t reviewed my resume and didn’t seem to know what position I was applying for, which was surprising. Instead of asking about my research project, they steered the conversation toward a backend project I’d mentioned, and the questions weren’t consistently scoped—there was even some frontend content that I hadn’t expected to come up.

By the end, it didn’t feel like the interviewers were working from the same context, and that

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