Started by introduce myself, then dive deep in my resume, focused on many details and what specific technologies that I was using. After about 30 minutes, I was gave a leetcode-style coding, with follow up question. Total is 2 coding questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself, tell me about your most recent project.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at TikTok (San Jose, CA) in Dec 2025
Interview
Pre order traversal of tree, need to construct tree from list, no template given, got asked about my resume a lot, dive deep, asked about internship experience and research experience, relevant questions towards research
about my resume, bq questions, some fundamental questions, then a lc,
finally the qa part, but it does not go smoothly. I feel the interviewer did not want to talk to me much
OA, followed by 3 rounds of onsite interview, all three rounds are coding round, 2 medium and 1 hard leetcode level coding, and one of the round asked some full stack related questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
hard leetcode level question, and project deep dive