Failed the TikTok LIVE Phone Screen on Graph Coloring

The role came from a TikTok HR reach-out. There was no HR call, they only asked about my sponsorship situation over email and then scheduled a 1-hour phone interview. The interview was on HackerRank. I started with a self-introduction, then a behavioral question: tell me about a challenge. After that came a LeetCode problem, Possible Bipartition: > Split a group of n people (labeled from 1 to n)…

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