J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez TikTok en mai 2024
Entretien
Introduction + go over resume + resume based questions about details of projects + ML related questions + differences between transformers models + Leetcode medium Linked List + ask question back
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Talk about common transformer models and attention mechanisms.
Difference between positional embeddings of famous LLMs
Common fine-tuning LLMs techniques
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