TikTok Software Engineer interview experience

I also spent time discussing my projects in depth, and the questions weren’t limited to whether I could code—they probed how I’d reason about scalability and communicate tradeoffs in a fast-paced back-and-forth.

What stood out to me most was how the round structure felt like a deliberate progression. After the coding assessment, I had multiple team-member-style technical sessions, and later I reached a system design interview before a final discussion with a hiring manager or senior engineer/team lead. In my case, the system design portion made the interview feel more complete, not just