Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TikTok (San Jose, CA) nel mese di gen 2026
Colloquio
Two rounds. Each round includes a resume check, a knowledge check and coding. The typical question is like "Tell me about transformer architecture in details" or "How to choose the loss function? cross entropy or MSE?
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
ML system Design. ML knowledge. Coding (LC25 hard)
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TikTok (San Jose, CA)
Colloquio
The interview process consisted of multiple rounds including an online assessment, technical phone screens, and virtual onsite interviews. The questions focused on machine learning fundamentals, coding challenges, and system design. The recruiters were responsive and kept me updated throughout the entire process.
Asked heavily about my resume, mainly focused on the projects I did that had overlapped areas with the team. Did an easy coding question on calculating a ML metric and asked about how to optimize the solution.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
What was a metric I used in my recommender system project.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TikTok (Singapore) nel mese di feb 2026
Colloquio
The structure for both rounds is as follows:
20 mins deep dive into resume, explanation of personal projects & past experience, 20 mins testing about AIML concepts, 20 mins for leetcode medium
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Explain what would happen if bias was removed from the equation during backpropogation