Tencent Software Engineer interview experience

It was packed with technical discussion, but the unusual part was that there weren’t any coding questions at all—mostly questions meant to probe how I thought and how I understood the underlying concepts. The interviewer was friendly and made it feel conversational.

Across the process, the overall structure matched that “multiple staged conversations” feel: an initial recruiter-type contact, then a higher-level recruiter presentation, followed by two technical interviews, and then an HR conversation that covered general topics like relocation. The technical themes I remember included things