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ByteDance Software Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a ByteDance Software Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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CodingStart here. 9 questions · ~100 min
Split Friends into Two GroupsMedium
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Use BFS coloring to determine whether a friend graph can be split into two groups without internal connections.

bfsData StructuresAlgorithmsByteDance
Trie with CRUD OperationsMedium
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Implement trie insertion, lookup, update, and deletion while preserving shared prefixes.

coding challengeData StructuresAlgorithmsByteDance
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System Design8 questions · ~88 min
Design a Monitoring and Alert SystemHard

Design a monitoring system that evaluates user-defined conditions and reliably delivers configurable alerts.

notification systemanomaly detectiondata streamsByteDance
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Security & Infrastructure8 questions · ~88 min
Identify Process Responsible for Disk UsageMedium
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Use Linux filesystem, process, and container signals to identify which process is consuming disk space.

Operating SystemsprocessesTroubleshootingByteDance
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Pipelines6 questions · ~66 min
Should Unlikes Be CountedHard
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Design a pipeline and metric model that correctly determines whether unlike events should affect engagement counts.

Data Qualitydata pipelineData ModelingByteDance
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SQL & Data Manipulation8 questions + 3 drills · ~118 min
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Execution8 questions · ~88 min
Improve System ThroughputHard
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Assesses your performance engineering skills across architecture, concurrency, and bottlenecks.

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More topics3 questions · ~33 min
Complex System Architecture DesignHard
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Assesses system design thinking, constraint analysis, and trade-off justification.

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