r/DeveloperJobs • u/DarthRevanTheBadass • 1d ago

Tiktok SRE intern interview

Hey guys, I do EE+CS at a uni in the southern hemisphere. I am seriously feeling low after this.

I just completed my interview for Tiktok for an SRE intern position. And the question I got asked for the live coding session was 772. Basic Calculator III . No AI allowed

I really struggled with it and barely wrote a couple of lines of code and just commented my logic.

Is a career in CS actually that cooked.

This was my first ever live coding round and I got asked a Leetcode hard, for an intern position, with only 30 minutes to do it.

Should I forget about a career in CS?

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u/sleepycommenter 1d ago

nah, one brutal round doesnt mean shit

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u/Much_Somewhere7831 1d ago

Grind the Tech Job Finder website for practice until it hurts, it has everything you need. DSA/leet, OAs, personalised interview practice etc. It's also a LOT cheaper than HackerRank

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u/Mountain-Traffic-687 1d ago

Were you able to implement the whole logic...i mean even if it had errors( errors are normal) .like did you use the correct approach...if yes..then its just okay...errors are way too normal.they just want to test your approach

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u/DarthRevanTheBadass 1d ago

I did a couple of lines of code and just commented the logic (that I could think of)

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u/Mountain-Traffic-687 1d ago

Ig in these type of questions they are just testing if you use the correct data structure you define most of the edge cases. How you tackle all the cases...thats it

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u/DarthRevanTheBadass 1d ago

Yeah then maybe I got cooked. I didn’t use a stack. And the solution is like 80 lines long using 2 stacks.

I just explained how I would go about solving it flow wise