RejectedTechnical Screen
Coding Round Caught Me Off Guard, Rejected
ByteDanceSite Reliability Engineer · Technical Screen · Apr 2026
I mass-applied online. They reached out within 1-2 days, and the interview got scheduled right away. The first round was pretty easy — a binary search type problem, not from LeetCode. Find something in a sorted array. I spent a good chunk of the remaining time just chatting with the interviewer about the company. For the second round I was expecting behavioral/fundamentals stuff — Linux/network/k…
Shared by a candidate · reported Apr 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.