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TikTok Machine Learning Engineer Interview Questions

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CodingStart here. 8 questions · ~87 min
Flip String to Monotone IncreasingMedium
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Find the minimum flips needed to make a binary string monotone increasing using a one-pass dynamic programming approach.

Dynamic ProgrammingArraysAlgorithmsTikTok
Subsets of Distinct IntegersMedium
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Generate every subset of distinct integers using iterative subset expansion.

combinatoricsArraysAlgorithmsTikTok
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System Design7 questions · ~76 min
MoCo and Contrastive LearningHard

Explain MoCo and compare its design tradeoffs with BYOL, SimCLR, and SwAV.

gpu hardwaredistributed trainingcomputational costTikTok
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Machine Learning8 questions · ~87 min
Cross-Entropy Loss FormulationHard
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Write and explain binary and multiclass cross-entropy loss, including stable logits-based implementation and gradient interpretation.

Neural Networksloss functionsSupervised LearningTikTok
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Pipelines8 questions · ~87 min
I/O Throughput for ML PipelinesHard
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Explain how to diagnose and reduce excessive I/O in a large-scale machine learning pipeline.

data transferdata processingdata pipelinesTikTok
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Model Evaluation8 questions · ~87 min
ROC Curve and Confusion MatrixEasy
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Explain how to build and interpret a ROC curve and confusion matrix, and how they map to business outcomes.

ClassificationConfusion MatrixAUC-ROCTikTok
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Statistics & Probability7 questions · ~76 min
Sample Size and Power PlanningMedium
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Reason about sample size, power, and minimum detectable effect before launching an experiment.

Hypothesis TestingPower AnalysisSample SizeTikTok
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More topics4 questions · ~44 min
Transformers vs RNNs (Attention and LSTM)Hard
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Implement and evaluate RNN, LSTM, and Transformer encoders, explaining how attention changes sequence modeling, context handling, and computational cost.

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