Candidates applying for SRE/DevOps Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at TikTok overall takes an average of 7 days.
Common stages of the interview process at TikTok as a SRE/DevOps Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 100%
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Coding interviewer hit me with "what technical work have you done?" questions that I wasn't expecting since I was focused on coding. Coding was Leetcode. Similar to most tech companies, they want to see how you think. Unfortunately they did not warn me that speaking Mandarin was a "nice to have" skill.
I applied through university. I interviewed at TikTok (Singapore) in Jan 2026
Interview
Technical Interview
1. Leetcode
2. Past experience
3. CS Trivia
And then just talked about CS stuff in general. The interview is conducted in Chinese as well, and I believe for many of the roles it is expected that you can speak a communicable amount of chinese
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What did you do in your past job?
Follow up details on my past job