ByteDance General Intern Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at ByteDance.
ByteDance
Intern
Intern Average Positive experience Accept offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
The interview process was straightforward and positive. The interviewer was quite friendly, and overall, the interview wasn't overly challenging. The steps included an HR phone screening, followed by two separate manager interviews. All of these were conducted virtually. I received the offer within a couple of weeks, and the HR communication was prompt.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Tell me about your passion and motivation.
- Can you share your past experience in the relevant industry?
ByteDance
Intern
Intern Average Positive experience Accept offer 1 round
Interview process
Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical Behavioral
The interview involved writing multi-head attention, followed by questions about my resume, previous internship at Kuaishou, and topics like multi-modal label classification. We also discussed the rationale behind using cross-modal contrastive learning in multi-modal BERT and the distinctions between DDPM and DDIM in diffusion models.
Confirmed questions6 questions
- Can you implement multi-head attention?
- Tell me about your resume.
- Can you discuss your internship at Kuaishou?
ByteDance
Frontend Developer Intern
Intern Average Neutral experience Accept offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Coding Technical
first meeting with an engineer from the team, where we did 2 leetcode algorithm problems (medium) and talked about the work in the team. second meeting with the team leader, again with 2 leetcode algorithm problems (medium). third meeting with the manager, more general questions, and was asked to implement an input with auto-completion function.
Confirmed questions1 question
- implement an input with auto-completion function
ByteDance General Intern Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from ByteDance interview reports.
“Regarding MQTT, what layer does it fall under in the network layer?”
Read reports →“Can you explain the difference between a thread and a process?”
Read reports →“Could you implement an LRU cache using an appropriate data structure?”
Read reports →“Can you explain how to implement a tree retrieval algorithm?”
Read reports →“Thinking about your experience with TikTok, what potential problems might arise from its use?”
Read report →“Could you share three words that you feel accurately represent you?”
Read report →“Can you solve this medium LeetCode problem in 30 minutes?”
Read report →“How do you approach data analysis for a given dataset?”
Read report →“What would be your approach to calculating the cost of implementing a specific wage policy company-wide?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 74 ByteDance interview reports.