Intership applicants have rated the interview process at TikTok with 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 36.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Intership roles take an average of 3 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at TikTok overall takes an average of 40 days.
Common stages of the interview process at TikTok as a Intership according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
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The interviewer start talking in Chinese in the beginning and did not even ask me if i want of not, showing no professional at all. I doubt the interviewer did not even prepare for this, just ask random questions that came up his mind.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok (Singapur) in Oct 2025
Interview
Previous intern experience - go through the resume and some back and forth Qs
Scenario based questions - when it comes to real life working environment
Research about company
Q&As
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Self introduction and then just normal interview in English
First, the interviewer asked about my experience on my resume, then asked about LLM system design. After that, he asked about the precision and recall of the new model after connecting two models in series. Finally wrote Multi-head Attention.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the transformer formula? Why do we need to divide by the square root d_k?