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TikTok interview questions
Updated Jun 4, 2026Difficulty
Average
Experience
Mixed
How others got an interview
- 17%RecruiterRecruiter
- 12%Employee ReferralEmployee Referral
- 2%OtherOther
- 2%Campus RecruitingCampus Recruiting
- 1%Staffing AgencyStaffing Agency
- 1%In PersonIn Person
Interview search
5,878 interviews
TikTok interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at TikTok as 38.2% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.42 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Senior Frontend Developer and NLP Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for QA and Business Development roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at TikTok takes an average of 26 days when considering 152 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Machine Learning Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Software Engineer In Test roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 90 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at TikTok according to 152 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 26%
One on one interview: 25%
Phone interview: 23%
Presentation: 8%
Background check: 5%
Personality test: 3%
Group panel interview: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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