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
The process was straightforward. I first submitted my resume online. Then I was contacted by a recruiter for initial screening. After that, I was given an online coding/technical assessment. Finally, there was a behavioral interview with the hiring manager.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok (San Jose, CA)
Interview
The first round was about leetcode coding, and basic questions based on the resume. There were questions about VLMs, Language models, and basic system designing. There was one coding question to solve and on the easy to medium difficulty level.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you go about training a VLM from scratch.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at TikTok (Singapore) in Sept 2025
Interview
round 1 resume walk through, technical breadth and depth questions, 1 LC medium - 3sum
round 2 resume walk through, technical breadth and depth questions, 1 LC medium - tree traversal question
rd3 resume walk through, behavioural questions