TikTok Software Engineer interview experience

Communication was generally good, yet both the interviewer and I ran into technical issues where we didn’t have access to the video or the coding platform we were supposed to use.

I also noticed that my process started fairly efficiently: once the recruiter got me scheduled, the timing felt quick, and I could even pass the first stage and still get cut off after the next, where the round felt more intensive with project-related questions plus coding and system-design content. The experience also included a resume-forward component early on, with a lot of probing tied to what I’d