The interviewer started by introducing themselves and the team. I then spent some time explaining my current projects and going into detail about an end-to-end system I'm working on, including the challenges I've encountered. The key technical question was: Wh...
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I had an initial system design round where I designed a key-value store. I felt the discussion went well with the interviewer, mainly focusing on the CAP theorem.
I applied online for a general Software Engineer role. I had a phone screen and an online assessment (OA). **Phone Screen:** I was asked a frequently asked interview question(leetcode 1438) that I hadn't seen before. I intuitively wanted to use a heap, but the...
I applied through a referral in early January 2026. About a week later, I heard back from a recruiter and scheduled a chat for two days later. The recruiter asked about my years of experience, immigration status, skills, location preference, and compensation e...
I took an online assessment consisting of two questions. **Question 1:** Given an email content string, a verification string, and a slice constant k, I was asked to map every k letters in the email to a checksum number (a-z as 1-25, ":", "/", "." as 26-28), s...
I recently interviewed for a Data Engineer position at TikTok. The questions were very practical. I will share the key points below. **System Design Key Questions:** * Video Processing Pipeline: I was asked to design a pipeline to process massive video upload...
In the technical screening round, I was asked an N-ary tree question where I needed to check whether two nodes have a common ancestor and return that ancestor. During the coding round, I received two interval arrays as input (interval1: [[1, 2], [3, 4]], inter...
The phone screen question was LeetCode 230. The first onsite round is Leetcode 549. The second onsite round was to design a meeting scheduler. I also had a system design round where I was asked to design an online shopping cart, supporting many features. I nee...
Here's a breakdown of my interview experience. I hope everyone else has better luck. - Coding: LeetCode 1762, 314 - AI Coding: Maze problem. - System Design: A fitness app that allows users to view history and exercise route maps. This was a question I hadn't...
In the phone screen, I was asked to do a deep dive into my projects, especially regarding agent evaluation and LLM SFT/DPO. They asked about how I prepared and synthesized data, and what challenges I faced. I was also asked to describe attention and transforme...
