Tencent Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I had to explain the challenges I hit and what I considered highlights, which pushed me to be specific instead of just describing the project at a high level.

From there, the questions shifted into scenario-style problem solving. I was asked how I would recommend books accurately to users, and I also got a web scraping scenario where I had to talk about how I’d handle constraints like request limits or time pressure imposed by the target site. The interviewer also seemed to care about whether I understood the broader technology context, since we ended with me answering questions