Reflections After Two Years as a Software Engineer
Reflections After Two Years as a Software Engineer Originally published in Chinese on 2022-02-22; this English edition preserves the original scope and technical context. In 2019, I met my current director during a Tencent summer internship interview. During that period, I moved in with a roommate and spent the entire interview process on the phone with the interviewer for two hours. Although I didn’t end up joining the summer internship, this opportunity led to a direct internal promotion from my director after the internship and a spot in the project team. After undergoing four rounds of technical interviews, I received a voice message from my director in the library one day, followed by a phone call from HR. I was finally confirmed to be relocating to Shenzhen for the project team a few months before returning home. ...