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Passed Round 1 Coding I Couldn't Solve, Rejected After Round 2

TikTokSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2025

The first round was with a peer based in North America. They opened with some common project questions — what was the hardest part, and how I solved it. Then there was a coding question, a variant of a LeetCode problem. They gave a string and a width. The first part was to split the whole string into lines of that width, then add a suffix to each line saying which line number it is out of the tot…

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