Tencent·Software Engineer

Tencent Software Engineer interview experience

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Hong KongPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview ended up being long and pretty difficult.

The questions started with basic networking fundamentals like TCP, UDP, and sockets, and I had to work through those concepts while also solving a problem that moved from normal toward harder difficulty, similar to what you might see on LeetCode.

The main coding challenge involved binary search and dynamic programming, and I had to do it in an environment where the interviewer provided an IDE. I wasn’t allowed to use my own development setup, so everything depended on working smoothly in the provided tools. It felt like the interviewer wanted both concept depth and the ability to execute

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