Tencent Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I moved on to a second round with a senior staff software engineer in China. The interview language surprised me: the first part was split roughly half English and half Mandarin, but the second round became entirely Mandarin even though that wasn’t what I expected.

That language shift changed how quickly I had to think and answer, especially because the conversation was more technical and less forgiving if I stumbled on phrasing. I remember feeling like I had to concentrate more on expressing ideas cleanly than on the content alone, and that became the main challenge of the