TikTok Software Engineer interview experience

The coding interview was focused on LeetCode medium-to-hard questions, and I was sharing my screen on their platform while solving. I didn’t get past that coding stage, so I never reached whatever might have followed.

One thing that lingered from that overall process was how strongly the bar depended on having enough familiarity with patterns—especially with the kind of foundational CS knowledge that tends to show up when they push coding difficulty upward. I also noticed the recruiter and scheduling side could be pretty responsive and fast, which made the process feel streamlined even