I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at ByteDance (Dubai) in Nov 2024
Interview
1st round asked 2 dsa questions on graphs and strings. both were medium level questions.
2nd round asked dp tough questions and fundamentals of computer science including system designing and other concepts.
Describe the most complex backend project you have taken charge of in the past. What is the business peak QPS? What technical bottlenecks did you encounter and how did you optimize them?
The interview process was fairly standard. They asked about technical skills, projects, and tested coding abilities. Overall, the communication went smoothly.
The interviewer was guiding throughout the process, helped debug the coding questions, and offered ideas to move forward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What’s the most complex or memorable online incident or piece of feedback you’ve experienced?
I completed an online OA with 5 MCQs and 2 coding questions: one on implementing a priority queue and the other on finding an answer using binary search. Easy problems on linear data structure
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I cant remember the question specifically, but both involve greedy algorithm with priority q and binary search.