I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ByteDance (Singapur) in Feb 2023
Interview
Met with the manager and one of the software engineer in Singapore. Overall felt their questions were relatively straightforward but they were a bit condescending. Would not recommend. Something feels wrong in the company.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at ByteDance (Shanghái, Shanghai) in Dec 2025
Interview
It's terrible. And all interviewers are Karen.
I don't know why they decided to have an interview with me, on that they don't ever see my experience and skills. They only ask some general questions and general LeetCode problems. Then failed. It's a totally time-wasting process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
get the longest unrepeated substring of the parent string
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at ByteDance (Shenzhen, Guangdong) in Jul 2025
Interview
Quite professional, will ask you some deep-thinking questions based on your experience. Like how can you improve your current system efficiency in different angles. Also a leetcode solution will be required at the interview, it is usually medium level.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How you can improve your system throughput on the technical level?
* Development skill. In the online program, developing a program to solve an algorithm problem.
* Architecture skill and design a system to solve a problem.
* What problems have you encountered in the past? How did you solve them?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the online program, developing a program to solve an algorithm problem.
