I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at TikTok in May 2020
Interview
One of the worst experience of my life, I worked for serious tech company and I've never seen a confusion and disorganization as I've seen in TIKTOK. Recruiters are unprepared, they aren't interested to your profile but just to ask you question for lead a market analysis and use people for have feedbacks about the products etc. Lots of vacancies but most of them are not real. They replied to emails in the same way to everyone, I've found also very rude chinese recruiter with no interest and preparation. Please be careful of them and you precious time. Don't waste time with them. After 2 months of interviews they are disappeared, I tried to call them and send email and inbox, no replies, no respect for the effort. An awful chinese company!!
Interview was decent. Interviewer was honest and detailed about scope, Questions are the usual and case study on the spot. Recruiter was slow and not very responsive or helpful during the whole process.
The interview process was quick and efficient. I didnt feel like the questions went into much depth. The interviewer was polite but didnt really have much to say about company benefits.
Applied for several non-tech positions and got reached out for sales role. Had HR pre screening call first, then with hiring manager, then with 1 teammate and another 1 cross-functional team member, then the HR for offer negotiation.
