Technical Screen

Three Technical Rounds, Pulled From the Pool

TikTokMachine Learning Engineer · New Grad · Technical Screen · Feb 2026

(Project questions omitted) Round 1: Our current business needs a multimodal large model to caption videos — how do you ensure deployment stays within compute and memory constraints? Follow-up: if you already have captions and embeddings, and a brand advertiser wants to quickly find relevant videos to watermark, how would you speed that up? What is overfitting, and how do you mitigate it? Coding:…

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