J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 2 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez TikTok en juil. 2025
Entretien
Deeply scrutinize resumes + ask for extensive LLM knowledge + moderate Leetcode skills
Resume questions are very detailed, requiring clear explanations and asking about many related topics. LLM knowledge is about Transformers, such as explaining QKV calculations and calculating flops.
Leetcode is generally not difficult, focusing on binary search, trees, and graphs.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
What is the formula to compute the attention score given by Q, K, V
J'ai passé un entretien chez TikTok (San Jose, CA)
Entretien
three rounds, each has coding + ml basic + resume related questions
understand all the details in resume is important, since might go very deep down the project you have worked on
The first round was mainly a CV walkthrough.
The second round focused in depth on one specific project.
Both rounds also included LeetCode medium-level problems.
The third round was with the hiring manager with both project and problems for their business.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 1 semaine. J'ai passé un entretien chez TikTok (San Jose, CA) en mars 2026
Entretien
one hour first round tiktok usds phone screen interview. past projects questions, leetcode mid questions, and machine learning, deep learning, large language model questions. And then ask the interviewer questions.
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