TikTok Software Engineer interview experience

After a recruiter touchpoint, I hit technical interviews where I had to talk through my past work alongside medium-level coding questions. The questions weren’t just “solve it and stop”; there was a lot of back-and-forth about how I thought about the problem.

In one interview, I remember the pacing clearly: a short introduction and background chat, then two coding problems over about forty-five minutes, and finally a brief closing window to discuss role details and next steps. In another round, the interviewer reviewed my resume first and then asked a couple LeetCode questions that leaned on