Two Easy Rounds, Then a Camera-Off Grilling in Chinese

ByteDance's recruiter scheduled my interviews one round at a time, and never told me in advance what any round would actually cover — I only ever found out the time and length of the next round. Round 1: The interviewer was based in the Bay Area. He gave me a problem about the longest subarray of consecutive 1s — a sliding window problem I solved in seconds — with a follow-up on the 2D version. I…

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