I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at ByteDance (Los Angeles, CA)
Interview
I applied through a referral link and 3 months later a recruiter reached out to me. I first had an interview with the recruiter and then four rounds of interviews with the hiring manager, two team members, and one cross-fuctional partner. After all of this, the recruiting team told me that the position was put on hold. A month later another recruiter reached out to me via LinkedIn to interviewer for the same position and they had to no idea that I had already interviewed for it. Afer reaching out to the original recruiter, I was told that I actually didn't have enough experience for the role. This feedback was never given during my initial round of interviews and I was left in the dark after the position went on hold. Communication was poor and the recuiting team was disorganized.
Interviewer is condescending and rude. Need to learn SQL etc prior to meeting. Expects interviewees to have no work life balance and work overtime without OT pay. Expected to watch really horrible stuff as moderator. But I wouldn't want the interviewer as a boss, he seems unreasonable and from his track record he tends to jump around companies to improve his job title
I applied online. I interviewed at ByteDance (Hangzhou, Zhejiang) in Apr 2023
Interview
first i introduced myself, and described two projects that i managed in the past 2-3 years, then asked me some basic project questions, and asked me, how to increase the transaction concurrency if the qps is extremely high. also asked me some basic tech questions, such as redis Persistence , zset 's structure etc. the algorithm that he provide is not from leetcode or some thing, he made up the question not very regular
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Q: redis persistence, and redis zip structure (skiList and zipList)