This guide draws on 8 first-hand interview accounts from Nowcoder. Candidates describe about 1 round on average, most often technical interviews, behavioral interviews and an online assessment.
These 8 writeups cover data, design, software engineering roles. All of them were posted under a forum handle, so we could not verify the authors’ identities.
New grad. 1 round. Shared by Code_Agent on nowcoder, 1970-01-01
1First roundTechnicalCampus first round on agent architecture, document processing and choosing models per step, plus a question about a short internship.Covered: Agents vs rule-based bots, Where to use LLMs in workflows, Preventing agent loops, Short and long-term memory, Document parsing pipelines, Mixed handwriting OCR, Model routing per workflow step
Role not stated
Received an offer
Experienced, Hangzhou, China. 2 rounds. Shared by 寒枝不栖_13 on nowcoder, 1970-01-01
1Technical interviewTechnicalAbout 40 minutes of questions driven by projects on the resume.Covered: Resume project experience
2HR interviewBehavioralRoughly 30 minutes with HR on the same afternoon about project handling and industry outlook.Covered: Handling project situations, Views on the industry
Software Test Engineer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 让我再眯一会 on nowcoder, 2026-09-18
1First roundTechnicalResume-driven round on test design, internship work and personal qualities.Covered: Why testing, Test case design methods, AI-assisted test case design, Coverage measurement, Python scripting, API testing methods, Memorable bug, Strengths and weaknesses
Application software developer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by upc on nowcoder, 2026-09-22
1First interviewTechnicalFifty minutes starting with a knapsack problem, then projects and open-ended AI questions.Covered: 0/1 knapsack coding, Project background and challenges, Impact of AI on developers, Ensuring quality of AI-written code
Embedded software engineer
Not selected
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 冰河333 on nowcoder, 2026-09-28
1First interviewTechnicalWide coverage of C, RTOS, OS and networking fundamentals plus one project deep dive.Covered: C static, inline, struct versus union, strlen versus sizeof, Heap, stack and stack overflow, Linked lists versus arrays, Linux versus RTOS and priority inversion, Task prioritization and RTOS timeout debugging, Threads versus processes, Reliable UDP, select versus epoll, multicast versus broadcast, Project debugging story, Use of AI tools and hallucinations
Structural Design Engineer
Outcome not shared
New grad, Xi'an. 2 rounds. Shared by Felix26 on nowcoder, 2026-09-18
1AssessmentOnline assessmentOnline assessment a few days after applying.
2First roundTechnicalBusiness interview deeply probing one internship's mechanical design with guidance on gaps.Covered: Test rig transmission design, Motor selection and torque, Inertia matching, Frame manufacturing process, Fatigue durability for mass production
BSP Engineer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by Hasagii on nowcoder, 2026-09-18
1First roundTechnical30-minute project-based round on Linux kernel driver fundamentals.Covered: Processes vs threads, Device tree to probe flow, Platform device conversion, Driver matching, Lock-free zero-copy, Huge pages, Hung and crashing process debugging
Test Engineer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 牛客271998379号 on nowcoder, 2026-10-10
1First roundTechnicalA light conversation on background and testing career choices that became mostly casual once a poor fit was apparent.Covered: Thesis research, Testing vs test development, Development skills, Calibrating AI output, Explaining AI-assisted work
This guide draws on 8 first-hand interview accounts from Nowcoder. Candidates describe about 1 round on average, most often technical interviews, behavioral interviews and an online assessment.
What topics does Hikvision test in interviews?
Commonly reported topics include Agents vs rule-based bots, Where to use LLMs in workflows, Preventing agent loops, Short and long-term memory, Document parsing pipelines, Mixed handwriting OCR.
These guides summarize public, first-hand interview experiences shared by candidates. They describe the shape of each loop and the topics that came up, not a leaked question bank, and every experience links back to its original source. Processes change often. Treat this as directional prep, not a script.
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