TikTok Machine Learning Engineer interview experience

I went into coding sessions where I actually had to run the work and they checked the results, so it wasn’t enough to just talk through ideas.

Scheduling also added friction: it was common to have weekday and evening meetings with Asian teams, and the interviews often used Chinese during the technical conversations. The difficulty came through as less about a single tricky algorithm and more about staying sharp through a full technical exchange.

I didn’t get an offer, and what stuck with me was the intensity and the logistics—both made the process feel more demanding than a typical