I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at TikTok (Singapore)
Interview
First call with a recruiter, then a technical round with a machine learning engineer. I did not get past this so not sure what happens after.
I could already tell things were not going well for me after I replied to the interviewer's "ni hao" with "hello", as he seemed visibly upset I couldn't speak Mandarin. It was a 1 hour interview that was supposed to be a 1:1 split between discussing previous work experience and solving a coding problem. However, the interviewer interrogated me for 40 minutes on my resume, and only left me with 15 minutes for the coding exercise, and it was a Leetcode hard question. I managed to solve it optimally, answer follow up question on the approach but then got rejected
three rounds, each has coding + ml basic + resume related questions
understand all the details in resume is important, since might go very deep down the project you have worked on
The first round was mainly a CV walkthrough.
The second round focused in depth on one specific project.
Both rounds also included LeetCode medium-level problems.
The third round was with the hiring manager with both project and problems for their business.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at TikTok (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2026
Interview
one hour first round tiktok usds phone screen interview. past projects questions, leetcode mid questions, and machine learning, deep learning, large language model questions. And then ask the interviewer questions.
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