Technical Screen

A Hiring Manager Round Built Around One Experimentation Case

TikTokData Scientist · Technical Screen · Jul 2025

Round 1: HR screen, pretty much a normal phone screen — confirmed my work experience and visa status. Round 2: Hiring manager. This round had no coding (not sure if that counts as weird...). First 25 minutes: deep dive into my resume, lots of "why" questions about my project experience. Last 25 minutes, the case was: They want to launch an experiment testing a new version of a recommendation algo…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.