Tencent

Game Programmer Interview Experience - China

May 24, 2022

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Self Introduction
Some basic C / C++ questions like pointers, virtual functions, constructors, etc
Some basic data structure questions, comparison of hash map and rb-tree map, etc
Some C# questions
Some project related questions

Questions

C++ basics

Data structure basics

Implementation detail of a custom DSL that I've developed

Game dev stuffs (Quad tree, etc)

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Tencent Game Programmer role in China.

Success Rate

50%

Pass Rate

Tencent's interview process for their Game Programmer roles in China is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Tencent's Game Programmer interview process in China.

Tencent Work Experiences

Average

Game Programmer • Current Employee

January 6, 2023

Pros: Competitive pay; big company; formal processes

Cons: Bad work life balance; Need to be on call

Game Programmer • Current Employee

January 6, 2023

Pros: Competitive pay; big company; formal processes

Cons: Bad work life balance; Need to be on call

Good pay and smart colleagues, but long hours

Game Programmer • Former Employee

Shenzhen, China

Pros: Overall good pay, smart people and good working environment

Cons: Often overtime, limited work life balanced

Good pay and smart colleagues, but long hours

Game Programmer • Former Employee

Shenzhen, China

Pros: Overall good pay, smart people and good working environment

Cons: Often overtime, limited work life balanced

good infrastructure

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Shenzhen, China

Pros: People are nice, too much newer things to learn

Cons: I was too busy, and the food court was not good.

good infrastructure

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Shenzhen, China

Pros: People are nice, too much newer things to learn

Cons: I was too busy, and the food court was not good.

Average

Game Programmer • Current Employee

January 6, 2023

Pros: Competitive pay; big company; formal processes

Cons: Bad work life balance; Need to be on call

4.0
Average
Game Programmer • Current Employee
January 6, 2023
Pros: Competitive pay; big company; formal processes
Cons: Bad work life balance; Need to be on call

Good pay and smart colleagues, but long hours

Game Programmer • Former Employee

Shenzhen, China

Pros: Overall good pay, smart people and good working environment

Cons: Often overtime, limited work life balanced

4.0
Good pay and smart colleagues, but long hours
Game Programmer • Former Employee
Shenzhen, China
June 21, 2026
Pros: Overall good pay, smart people and good working environment
Cons: Often overtime, limited work life balanced

good infrastructure

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Shenzhen, China

Pros: People are nice, too much newer things to learn

Cons: I was too busy, and the food court was not good.

4.0
good infrastructure
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Shenzhen, China
March 1, 2022
Pros: People are nice, too much newer things to learn
Cons: I was too busy, and the food court was not good.

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