Interviewer Late Both Rounds, Then Rejected

I interviewed with ByteDance's Compliance Team (based in Singapore), for an MLE position. Overall the interview experience was pretty bad. Let me start with the process: Round one: the interviewer was 5 minutes late, then spent about 40 minutes asking about my project in a lot of detail. The coding question was Maximum Product Subarray, which I solved right away. Round two: the interviewer was 15…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jan 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.