I applied online. I interviewed at TikTok (San Jose, CA) in Jun 2024
Interview
Applied via referral and the recruiter reached out and scheduled 2 technical interviews. Got HR/HM call after that. All interviews are equally distributed between ml and leetcode. leetcode level medium is a must. ML algo implementations a must
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
implement forward and backward training loop logistic regression from scratch.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok in May 2024
Interview
Introduction + go over resume + resume based questions about details of projects + ML related questions + differences between transformers models + Leetcode medium Linked List + ask question back
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about common transformer models and attention mechanisms.
Difference between positional embeddings of famous LLMs
Common fine-tuning LLMs techniques