Algorithm Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at ByteDance with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 41.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Algorithm Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at ByteDance overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at ByteDance as a Algorithm Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 100%
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Routine first interview experience. Interviewer not very interested in following up with past experience details. Coding difficulty OK. Overall feels like they are doing this by their internal guideline and nothing else.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at ByteDance (Singapore) in Jan 2025
Interview
Gone through two rounds of technical interviews, didn't have the chance to go to the final round. Both rounds consist of leetcode, project Q&A, and LLM training experience and knowledge about it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Difference between PPO, DPO, GRPO
2. Explain KV cache and how it is stored
3. Explain the whole transformer architecture
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at ByteDance
Interview
Virtual Interview with live leetcode medium/hard. Test fundamentals of ML like bias variance tradeoff, deep decision tree vs random forest classifier, precision vs recall and what to prioritise in different scenarios