Tencent·Software Engineer

Tencent Software Engineer interview experience

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Auckland, AucklandPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ended up in a loop with three rounds: two technical interviews and one behavioral.

The early parts of the process were very focused on fundamentals—data structures came up repeatedly, and I was also asked to talk through C/C++ and engine or tooling related topics like UE5/Unity. I spent time explaining both my resume and whatever projects I was currently working on, because the questions kept snapping back to concrete experience.

In the middle of the technical rounds, I also got pushed into more applied problem-solving. One discussion included optimization-type questions, and there was a Python coding problem where I had to reason through the solution live. Across the

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