Took about two weeks from start to finish, which felt surprisingly quick. The first round was a technical assessment focusing on coding questions. One of my prompts involved counting islands in a grid, and mid-way, it hit me that I had practiced a similar question on PracHub just days earlier. The following rounds included parsing a nested list and finding a minimum cost path in a weighted grid. All were manageable, and I ended up receiving an offer, but ultimately chose to decline. Overall, a straightforward and pleasant experience.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Count the number of islands in a 2D grid of ones and zeros
Standard tech interview, resume review, data structure and algo question, not too difficult not too easy. a lot of fundamental questions asked. Interviewer was patient and friendly but obvious that english is not their first language
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at TikTok
Interview
- recruiter asked me to speak in Chinese for latter half of screen
- 1st round was algo interview
- 2nd round was algo and system design
- didn't move forward after second round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- 1st round was simple 1D dp problem
- 2nd round was graph problem (Djikstra's) and ML system design
2 rounds coding a lot of background questions very strange behavior from interviewer camera was off and asked questions in mandarin, leetcode medium-hard and very very slow communication from recruiters based in asia for an english role