TikTok Shop Software Engineer interview: scheduling issues and timed OA

The process got off to a bad start with scheduling problems that kept moving things around. I felt as though I was always waiting for someone else to show up, and that disruption carried into the technical portion. The assessment had an array medium question and a tougher trie problem with about 45 minutes total. I finished the array question in roughly the first quarter of that time, but the tri…

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