Tencent·Software Engineer

Tencent Software Engineer interview experience

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Shenzhen, GuangdongPosted Dec 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews leaned hard on fundamentals, and I had to bring a lot of CS/engineering knowledge to the table.

I needed to go through first and second technical interviews, followed by an HR conversation. The technical rounds both took about fifty minutes and were mostly about whether I could reason through core topics.

Across the technical parts, the questions covered things like C++ basics and design concepts—differences between pointers, smart pointers versus weak pointers, plus how to implement standard data structures. They also tested understanding of polymorphism and design patterns like publisher-subscriber and factory patterns.

When I looked back, the difficulty wasn’t just in the

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