ByteDance Software Engineer interview questions

“This was the bulk of the interview and I was not ready for it.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty standard once you get past the parsing.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This question is basically five questions stitched together and the interviewer just...” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew this was binary search pretty quickly, the monotonic property is obvious once you think about it.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Binary search on a float range was the move, but I kept second-guessing my termination condition.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to backtracking which was the right call, but explaining the pruning step cleanly took me longer than it should have.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic BFS, four directions, nothing tricky.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The 1D version clicked pretty fast once I thought about maintaining a window with a count of zeros inside it.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I fumbled the structure a bit here.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew this problem but fumbled the heap approach mid-explanation and ended up describing the two-pointer sort trick instead.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ByteDance, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.