J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez TikTok (San Diego, CA) en août 2025
Entretien
Recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn, had an interview with a member of their RecSys team shortly after. Was rejected a few days after the first-round interview. Overall, the process was pretty fair.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Was asked to explain and code up AUC, as well as some other basic questions about ML fundamentals (overfitting/underfitting, bias/variance tradeoff, etc).
The process was straightforward. I first submitted my resume online. Then I was contacted by a recruiter for initial screening. After that, I was given an online coding/technical assessment. Finally, there was a behavioral interview with the hiring manager.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez TikTok (San Jose, CA)
Entretien
The first round was about leetcode coding, and basic questions based on the resume. There were questions about VLMs, Language models, and basic system designing. There was one coding question to solve and on the easy to medium difficulty level.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
How would you go about training a VLM from scratch.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez TikTok (Singapour) en sept. 2025
Entretien
round 1 resume walk through, technical breadth and depth questions, 1 LC medium - 3sum
round 2 resume walk through, technical breadth and depth questions, 1 LC medium - tree traversal question
rd3 resume walk through, behavioural questions