ByteDance Software Engineer Phone Screen Questions
34+ questions from real ByteDance Software Engineer Phone Screen rounds, reported by candidates who interviewed there.
What does the ByteDance Phone Screen round test?
The ByteDance phone screen typically lasts 45-60 minutes and evaluates core Software Engineer fundamentals. Candidates should expect 1-2 algorithmic problems, basic system design discussion at senior levels, and questions about relevant experience. The goal is to confirm technical competence before bringing candidates onsite.
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ByteDance TikTok Ph.D. Technical Phone Screen Interview Experience
This post was last edited by only_temp_use on 2025-10-7 12:20. I applied to many companies without any referrals. No online assessment (OA), HR contacted me directly. My research direction wasn't rele
ByteDance Recent Tech Phone Screens Across Three Teams
Trust and Safety Group First Round: Pure coding 695, follow-up 827 Second Round: Discussed projects on resume, failed the first round Capcut Group Coding: bankSystem credit(account,t, n), debit(accoun
ByteDance Frontend Developer Tech Phone Screen Interview Experience
The Chinese interviewer was very friendly. The interview was conducted in Chinese. Basically, they skimmed my resume, then asked some standard front-end coding questions and some JavaScript coding. Th
ByteDance Tech Phone Screen Experience: Prefix Trie Problem and Interview Insights
I was asked two questions. The first one was too easy, and I can't quite remember it, so I'm posting the second one instead. The following content requires a score higher than 150. You can already vie
Please give me some points, thank you!! The interviewer was very serious and unsmiling. First, I introduced myself, then he gave me a question about k most frequent elements. I initially wrote it usin
ByteDance Frontend Engineer Technical Phone Screen Experience
This is my first time posting an interview experience, a newbie trying to survive, please excuse my poor performance. The interviewer was HM, not Chinese, not Indian, not American, seemed more like a
This post was last edited by EleanorLiu on 2025-10-10 08:30 First round Exam content: Coding + Project in-depth + General knowledge LC1209. Remove All Adjacent Duplicates in String II Project: Briefly
The problem is to output a shortest list of addresses, represented by their CIDR values, that exactly contain a given range of IP addresses. Example: "127.0.0.7" - "127.0.0.16" -> ['127.0.0.7/32', '12
Tiktok Singapore - Senior Frontend - R1
Interviewer didn\'t follow typical tiktok interview template of trivia and behavioral questions before coding. Jumped straight into coding. There were 2 problems Q1: LC 784 Letter Case Permutation I didn\'t know the javascript API...
TikTok Round 1 Backend Engineer New Grad Just one question and then build up on that question. Q- Basically create an inventory of some items with their count and then while checkout...
Tiktok Phone Screen Interview
This was for the 1st 1 hour tech screen out of 2 (they cancelled the second tech screen because I failed this first one). The question was: design a data...
TikTok Backend SWE | June 2024
Started off with Phone Screen: 1. Given a list of token values, and a totalValue that needs to be reached, find the minimum number of tokens needed to reach this totalValue....
TikTok | iOS 2-2 | Singapore | May 2024 [Offer]
yoe: 7 Round 1 (iOS + Coding challenge): [20min] A lot of questions related to concurrency: threads, GCD, deadlocks, race conditions, etc. [20min] For a graph coding challenge. Similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-islands Round...
Tiktok System Design Phone Screen August 2024
Question for Backend Engineer position Talk about your projects end to end (problem statement, scope, requirements, design, impelementation, testing, production, impact, collaboration) If you were designing an inventory system for a retail...
Tiktok Singapore | SSE | Rejected
Round 1 - 2265. Count Nodes Equal to Average of Subtree - 300. Longest Increasing Subsequence ### Round 2 - Good amount of discussion about my current projects, limitation, architecture and challenges. - Design A...
TikTok | Round 1 | Backend Engineer
Print each character and just after it, the occurrences Input = "GeeeEEKKKss" Output : "G1e3E2K3s2" 2. Given a matrix with string values with a delimiter return a list with strings separated into...
Tiktok Backend Engineer interview experience
Hi all, I had 4 rounds of interview: Round1: basic coding round: Medium Leetcode kind question Round2: system design: Sytem similar to twitter Round3: system design: another system design question Round4: Skip manager: Went very...
Tiktok Loop
Round 1: Duration: 1 hour Question 1: A question using level order traversal of a Binary tree. Basically findind max sum at a level. Question 2: Kth largest element in an array.
TikTok | Phone Screen | Data Eng
1 - hour phone screening BQ + LC567
Tiktok | Phone | Interview Schedule
Give time slots of interviewers and interviewees. Each interviewee takes one interview; interviewers can take arbitrarily many if available. Schedule interviews for as many interviewees as possible. Input1: {Interviewer1: [[t1,...
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