Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite segnalazione di un dipendente. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TikTok (San Jose, CA) nel mese di set 2025
Colloquio
Interviewed for a New Grad AI/ML back-end position. First round was standard CodeSignal. Second round was a 1-hour technical interview.
Despite the recruiter telling me to expect LC Med/Hard and ML theory questions, I was asked computer architecture questions. The rest of the interview was an LC Hard.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Explain how CPU scheduling and virtual memory work.
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TikTok (San Francisco, CA)
Colloquio
OA - 1 arrays Medium, 1 Trie Hard. I had 45 minutes to complete that. I was able to do the medium in about 15-20 minutes but I am not that great with trie ds so I was not able to finish.
Four Round Process
Phone Interview with Human Resources
Coding Round; 1 DSA Leetcode Medium Q
Coding Round: 2 DSA Leetcode Medium Q
Manager Round: System Design Q and behavioural Q
It took about four weeks from application to offer, longer than I initially expected. The initial phone screen was straightforward, covering my resume and some basic algorithms. Then came the technical rounds, which were challenging. One question on minimum window substrings had me diving into a sliding-window approach using pointers and hashmaps. Funny enough, I recognized it mid-round as something I’d practiced on PracHub just days before. After a final system design discussion, I received the offer and happily accepted.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Given two strings s and t, return the minimum window substring of s that contains every character of t including duplicates, or an empty string if no such window exists. Walk through the sliding-window approach using two pointers and a character-frequency hashmap, analyze the O(|s| + |t|) time complexity, and discuss how to adapt it when t contains characters not present in s or when s arrives as a stream that cannot be fully buffered.
