TikTok Software Engineer interview experience

The first interview was technical end-to-end with LeetCode Medium-style questions, and the last round mixed technical and behavioral so the interviewers could judge both how I solved problems and how I talked through my experience.

In the technical parts, I focused on medium difficulty problems and tried to be deliberate about how I communicated my approach. One of the OA/technical experiences I had along the way also included pairing between Java fundamentals questions and LeetCode tasks like a daily-temperatures style problem and a tree/traversal construction variant.

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