RejectedTechnical Screen

Two Completed Problems and Unexpected IDE Timeouts

TikTokSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

Someone contacted me through a professional network, so I treated the interview as practice and a chance to see the market. The two questions were LeetCode 159 and 93. I stumbled a little on the problems, but I did write both solutions. Their Python coding IDE was very bad. It timed out several times, which made me think I had written an infinite loop, but the environment was actually just runnin…

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