What candidates say the round looked like, summarised in our words, each linked to where it came from. TikTok hasn’t confirmed these details unless the source says “Official page”.
For the technical screen, the recruiter told the candidate to have their own IDE with AI assistance installed. A TikTok employee in the thread said to install Cursor beforehand and that the problems lean towards LeetCode medium-to-hard, such as expression calculators, course scheduling and word ladder style BFS. Use AI for boilerplate and syntax, but drive the architecture and logic yourself.
AI: Your own AI tools that could write code · Task: Build from a spec · Source: Blind thread