I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at ByteDance in Jun 2021
Interview
I was referred by an existing employee. Fast and effective interview coordination, mostly done on WhatsApp which very different from other companies. Interviewed with a friendly team of people who are very transparent about the company and practices.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you want to join ByteDance?
Share about your previous work experience.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ByteDance in Jun 2021
Interview
Initial conversation started on LinkedIn, after showing interest, I was scheduled for a technical interview with someone from the department of the role. Second round was also a technical interview with someone from the location of the role but in a different department. First interview was great, very great interaction with the interviewer, second round, the interviewer seemed distracted and overall stern and straightforward, not very engaging. Both technical interviews covered topics around web technologies, database indexing, HTTP, TCP/IP, performance optimization etc.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Describe into a bit detail some parts of the OSI model, how HTTPS works and how DNS Works as well
Both rounds of the interview had technical challenges around a Medium on HackerRank. First problem was about creating a DataStructure capable of handling insertions and deletions all in O(1) as well as having a function that returns a random element.