ByteDance interview practice

ByteDance Coding Interview and System Design Practice Start with verified evidence.

Practice from 53 ByteDance-tagged public coding problems, organized only by the stage, topic, difficulty, and recency metadata FastPrep can verify. The broader public catalog also includes 17 system-design exercises, 1 project-coding exercise.

Catalog
71 public practice assets (53 coding)
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Use the stage named in your invitation
Evidence
OA · Phone · Onsite metadata, shown in context
ByteDance practice workspace
Stage-led · public FastPrep catalog

Phone practice path

Phone Screen

Practice solving while explaining assumptions, tradeoffs, and complexity. Problems are ranked by repeated public catalog sightings.

Solve one end to end

35 ByteDance-tagged Phone Screen problems available.

CompanyProblemDifficultyPublic evidenceAction
BYByteDance
Implement Multi-Head AttentionMatrixSimulationHard
4 public reportsLast reported Oct 2026
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BYByteDance
Least Recently Used CacheHash TableLinked ListMedium
4 public reportsLast reported Oct 2026
Practice
BYByteDance
Course ScheduleGraphBreadth-First SearchMedium
3 public reportsLast reported Oct 2026
Practice
BYByteDance
Restore Addresses with K SegmentsStringBacktrackingMedium
2 public reportsLast reported Sep 2026
Practice
BYByteDance
Alien DictionaryGraphTopological SortHard
2 public reportsLast reported Sep 2026
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BYByteDance
Minimum Removals for Non-Overlapping IntervalsArrayGreedyMedium
2 public reportsLast reported Sep 2026
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BYByteDance
Apply Affine Array TransformationsArrayMathEasy
1 public reportLast reported Oct 2026
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BYByteDance
Parse a CSV RecordStringSimulationMedium
1 public reportLast reported Oct 2026
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BYByteDance
Maximize Fish over Limited HoursArraySortingHard
1 public reportLast reported Oct 2026
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BYByteDance
Implement a Heap Priority QueueHeapDesignMedium
1 public reportLast reported Oct 2026
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BYByteDance
Implement a FIFO QueueQueueArrayMedium
1 public reportLast reported Oct 2026
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BYByteDance
Spiral Matrix TraversalArrayMatrixMedium
1 public reportLast reported Sep 2026
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BYByteDance
Tic-Tac-Toe Game OverMatrixSimulationEasy
1 public reportLast reported Sep 2026
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BYByteDance
Delete K Values to Balance Index SumsArrayPrefix SumMedium
1 public reportLast reported Sep 2026
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BYByteDance
Binary Tree Target-Sum PathsTreeDepth-First SearchMedium
1 public reportLast reported Sep 2026
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BYByteDance
Path Existence in an Undirected GraphGraphBreadth-First SearchEasy
1 public reportLast reported Sep 2026
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BYByteDance
Enumerate Directed Paths and CyclesBacktrackingDepth-First SearchHard
1 public reportLast reported Sep 2026
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BYByteDance
Combination Sum II With Negative ValuesBacktrackingSortingMedium
1 public reportLast reported Sep 2026
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BYByteDance
Longest Substring With At Most Two Distinct CharactersSliding WindowHash TableMedium
1 public reportLast reported Sep 2026
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BYByteDance
Valid ParenthesesStringStackEasy
1 public reportLast reported Sep 2026
Practice

01 · Preparation plan

Build a graph-and-interval technical preparation path.

This page owns ByteDance-tagged technical practice, while the TikTok page emphasizes its separate assessment-heavy catalog. Dependency order, interval intersections, and constrained parsing form a distinct study path. The linked design exercises can extend that work without implying the two brands share a single interview process. This is a suggested practice sequence, not the employer's interview process. Your invitation and recruiter guidance remain the source of truth.

  1. 01

    Infer only justified ordering constraints

    Alien Dictionary requires turning adjacent words into graph edges. An invalid prefix ordering is a separate failure from a cycle and should be handled explicitly.

    • Compare the first differing characters.
    • Retain characters with no outgoing edges.
    • Test invalid prefixes and contradictory constraints.
    Practice: Alien Dictionary
  2. 02

    Advance the interval that ends first

    Use sorted interval intersections to derive a two-pointer invariant. Explain why advancing one input cannot skip an intersection that should be returned.

    • Clarify closed versus open endpoints.
    • Test touching and nested intervals.
    • Separate output size from auxiliary memory.
    Practice: Intersect Two Sorted Interval Lists
  3. 03

    Prune a constrained parser carefully

    The segmented-address exercise is a useful backtracking task. Bound the remaining characters before exploring a split, while preserving every legal result.

    • List segment length and value restrictions.
    • Check leading-zero behavior from the prompt.
    • Explain why each pruning rule is safe.
    Practice: Restore Addresses with K Segments

02 · Broader technical practice

Practice beyond standalone coding questions.

These public ByteDance-tagged exercises cover additional technical formats. They are included only when a verified catalog record and a crawlable practice page both exist.

System designLast seen Oct 2026

Design Fraud-Risk Scoring for Protected Actions

Design a bounded-latency fraud decision and learning loop that handles new actors and rare, delayed labels.

Open practice
System designLast seen Oct 2026

Payment Hold, Charge, and Settlement

Design a payment lifecycle that durably accepts hold and charge work, resolves upstream outcomes, releases unused holds, and incrementally builds parallel network-specific settlement batches.

Open practice
System designLast seen Oct 2026

Design a Personalized Recommendation System

Design event ingestion, candidate retrieval, ranking, and serving for a bounded personalized user-item catalog.

Open practice
System designLast seen Oct 2026

Design a Ticket Booking System

Design the catalog, availability, pricing, reservation, and payment path for a high-demand movie and event ticketing platform.

Open practice
System designLast seen Oct 2026

Design an Authenticated Shopping Platform

Design a single-retailer shopping API whose login, session, cart, and order boundaries remain secure and retry-safe at scale.

Open practice
System designLast seen Oct 2026

Design a Global Service Metrics Monitoring and Alerting Platform

Design a global platform that turns microservice metrics into honest health dashboards and timely, deduplicated anomaly alerts.

Open practice
System designLast seen Sep 2026

Design an Event Booking and Analytics Platform

Design a concert and movie booking platform whose operational activity feeds a governed cloud data warehouse for timely SQL and dashboard analysis.

Open practice
System designLast seen Sep 2026

Design a Cloud File Storage System

Design a Drive-like service for durable, chunked file storage, sharing, versions, and multi-device synchronization. Audit a first-letter photo placement plan and its database-cost drivers.

Open practice
System designLast seen Sep 2026

Design Multi-Tenant Agent Quota Accounting

Design a quota platform that reserves, meters, and reconciles agent work across tenants without overspending shared limits.

Open practice
System designLast seen Sep 2026

Design a Multimedia Content Moderation Platform

Design a post-upload video and image moderation pipeline that combines 20–30 versioned text and vision risk scores, exposes pending and final user states, and executes auditable video or account actions.

Open practice
System designLast seen Sep 2026

Design an Advertiser Campaign Configuration Platform

Model hierarchical advertising campaigns, validate targeting edits, preserve immutable history, and publish consistent serving snapshots.

Open practice
System designLast seen Sep 2026

Design Observability for AI Agent Tool Calls

Trace agent tool calls, failures, exceptions, and retries through a privacy-safe, high-volume observability platform.

Open practice
System designLast seen Aug 2026

Design a Top Songs by Country Leaderboard

Design a near-real-time service that aggregates music activity into cached country leaderboards every ten minutes.

Open practice
System designLast seen Aug 2026

Cache Avalanche Resilience

Design a cache-backed read service that prevents synchronized misses from overwhelming its authoritative database.

Open practice
System designLast seen Aug 2026

Cache-Aside Consistency Recovery

Design a cache-aside data path that bounds stale reads and repairs cache/database divergence after partial failures.

Open practice
System designLast seen Aug 2026

Relational Query Index Design

Design and validate one composite B-tree index for a high-volume, stably paginated order search.

Open practice
System designLast seen Aug 2026

SQL Index Eligibility Analysis

Analyze how several SQL query shapes use one composite B-tree index and validate the resulting plans.

Open practice
Project codingLast seen Jun 2026

Test Task Management User Assignments

Complete the provided unit tests for adding and removing users assigned to tasks.

Open practice

03 · Evidence boundary

What “ByteDance interview questions” means here.

It means practicing transferable implementation, testing, and technical reasoning with public catalog assets FastPrep tags to ByteDance. It does not mean FastPrep has access to the company's assessments or any private interview bank.

Repeated public sightings and last-reported dates can help you prioritize practice, but they cannot predict the questions, format, or platform in a specific interview.

  • Only ByteDance-tagged FastPrep catalog problems appear above.
  • Stage labels and report dates remain visible as context.
  • No official, private, leaked, or proprietary questions are claimed.

04 · Plain answers

ByteDance interview practice questions, answered plainly.

This page owns technical-practice intent for ByteDance. Hiring activity, timelines, and market signals remain on the separate hiring-insights page.

01Should I use the ByteDance page or the TikTok page?

Choose the company named in your role and invitation, then inspect the available practice. This page groups ByteDance-tagged coding and design assets; TikTok has a separate assessment-oriented collection. Neither the relationship between the brands nor similar exercises proves that their current hiring processes are interchangeable.

02Is FastPrep affiliated with ByteDance?

No. FastPrep is an independent interview-preparation product and is not affiliated with ByteDance. The page uses FastPrep's public practice catalog and does not claim official, private, leaked, or proprietary employer questions.

03How are ByteDance problems assigned to interview stages?

Stage labels come from FastPrep's public problem metadata. A problem can carry more than one reported stage, and hiring processes can change by role, level, location, and date. Treat the labels as preparation context, not a guarantee.

04Which ByteDance interview stage should I practice first?

Start with the stage named in your invitation or recruiter message. If no stage is known, use the largest available set to build general problem-solving fluency, then rehearse explanation and testing separately.

05Does this page predict the ByteDance interview process?

No. Public catalog counts, stage tags, and last-reported dates can help prioritize practice, but they cannot predict a specific interview's questions, sequence, timing, or platform.

Your next stage, made concrete

Pick a problem. Solve it end to end.

Start with the stage named in your invitation, then use public evidence as context—not as a promise of what you will be asked.

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