This guide draws on 19 first-hand interview accounts from Nowcoder. Candidates describe about 1 round on average, most often technical interviews, an online assessment and behavioral interviews.
These 19 writeups cover data, finance, software engineering roles. All of them were posted under a forum handle, so we could not verify the authors’ identities.
unknown. 1 round. Shared by 服务端老cpp on nowcoder, 1970-01-01
1Second roundTechnicalC++ language and concurrency questions including writing a singleton and designing a thread pool.Covered: Rvalue references and move semantics, Thread-safe singleton, Thread pool design, Default member functions
Embedded Software Engineer
Outcome not shared
unknown. 1 round. Shared by 嵌进现实的大厂梦 on nowcoder, 1970-01-01
1First roundTechnicalSelf-introduction and project discussion followed by C bit-manipulation and embedded hardware questions.Covered: Internship debugging story, Project architecture, Bit masks and integer promotion, Swap macro pitfalls, Register bit-field updates, GPIO button debouncing
Embedded Software Engineer
Outcome not shared
unknown. 1 round. Shared by 嵌进现实的大厂梦 on nowcoder, 1970-01-01
1Second roundTechnicalA mix of reflective questions about past debugging and design choices with networking and memory-copy fundamentals.Covered: Responding to design criticism, TCP socket call sequence, memmove vs memcpy, Hardest technical problem, Linux device node issues, Writing technical notes
Algorithm Engineer (speech LLM)
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by Bylan不摆烂 on nowcoder, 2026-09-13
1Written testOnline assessmentTwo-hour test with 25 multiple-choice items and three coding problems of rising difficulty.Covered: C++/Python output, Neural network parameters, Tree traversal, Combinatorics, Array swap optimization, Number theory, Counting combinations
Agent R&D Engineer
Outcome not shared
New grad, Wuhan. 3 rounds. Shared by Tale2229 on nowcoder, 2026-09-14
1First roundTechnicalOn-site round covering projects, OS and networking fundamentals, a logic puzzle and two short algorithm questions.Covered: Chat system architecture, Load balancing, Agent memory, LangGraph, HTTP basics, IPC, Locks, Red-black vs AVL trees, Balance-scale puzzle, Linked list cycle, Single number
2Second roundBehavioralLighter conversation on motivation, collaboration and recent agent developments.Covered: Teamwork conflict, Agent trends, Self-assessment
3HR roundBehavioralWide-ranging HR questions on motivation, personality, location fit and job search status.Covered: Motivation, Learning approach, Internship reflection, Relocation, Other offers, Salary
Role not stated
Not selected
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 雾已散声宜慢 on nowcoder, 2026-09-15
1On-site interviewTechnicalOn-site round mixing LLM usage, production incident handling, Java and database basics and deployment questions.Covered: LLM hallucination, Domain-driven design, Career goals, LLM timeouts in production, HTTP status codes, LinkedList memory, Slow query diagnosis, Locks, Dockerfiles, Java OOM, Linux monitoring commands
Backend Engineer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 艾坤日记 on nowcoder, 2026-09-17
1First roundTechnicalMostly open-ended questions on AI tooling, release handling, product thinking and personal reflection.Covered: Key skills for engineers in the AI coding era, Internship challenges, Comparing coding agent tools, Handling a bad change already in canary release, Product sense, Strengths and weaknesses, Handling frustration
Test development engineer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 牛客271998379号 on nowcoder, 2026-09-22
1First interviewTechnicalForty minutes reviewing internship outputs in depth. School projects were not discussed.Covered: Hardest internship work, Building a Go load-testing tool, Release testing process, Hard-to-reproduce bugs, Defect severity ratios, Team skills and knowledge base, Handling conflicting priorities
AI application engineer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 烦恼的喜羊羊在摸鱼 on nowcoder, 2026-09-24
1First interviewPanelTwo interviewers dug into three internships and agent runtime isolation design.Covered: Why no return offer, Async workflow framework, P99 search latency optimization, Two-level caching and local cache consistency, Agent harness layering, Context compression and prefix cache, Skill routing evaluation, Sandboxing with gVisor and microVMs, Multi-tenant coding agent SaaS design
Java developer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 又在摸鱼的亚瑟很想去三亚看海 on nowcoder, 2026-09-28
1Written testOnline assessmentTwenty-five choice questions, an AI coding task and one algorithm problem with slow grading.Covered: Operating systems and networking choice questions, Java choice questions, AI-assisted coding task, Repeated max-minus-element array transform
Agent developer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 刘宇珂 on nowcoder, 2026-09-29
1First interviewTechnicalScenario-based OS, networking and debugging questions instead of rote fundamentals or project grilling.Covered: Recent learning summary, Internship challenges, Low CPU utilization scenario, HTTP request latency calculation, Diagnosing sudden 100% CPU, Object-oriented design, Engineer value when AI writes code, Hobbies
Test development engineer
Not selected
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 牛客271998379号 on nowcoder, 2026-09-29
1Second interviewTechnicalA forty-minute round focused on the candidate's knowledge-base project and applying LLMs to testing.Covered: Why and how the knowledge base was built, Measured improvement from the knowledge base, Test coverage strategy, A memorable bug, Tips for AI coding tools, Skills versus agents, Hardest and easiest LLM problems in testing
Java Developer
Not selected
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 同尘去 on nowcoder, 1970-01-01
1First round (onsite)TechnicalA 30-40 minute in-person round of resume-keyword trivia and open-ended scenario design questions.Covered: Diagnosing full GC, Exporting heap dumps, RocketMQ uses and partitions, Common String methods, Linux commands and grepping logs, AI coding vs manual coding, Deduplicating and counting 100 million URLs, Finding the 100 most similar influencers, Designing a CPM pricing pipeline with AI parsing and exchange rates
Embedded Software Engineer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 机械人的嵌入式之路 on nowcoder, 1970-01-01
1First roundTechnicalProject-driven questions on data pipelines and communication protocols plus register-level driver basics.Covered: MCU project architecture, Frame design and handling sticking, splitting and loss, Buffering and throughput for high data rates, Sensors with different sampling rates, Bit operations on peripheral registers, What to read when writing a GPIO driver, I2C transaction timing, Debugging SPI data mismatches
Embedded Software Engineer (Automotive)
Outcome not shared
New grad, Suzhou. 1 round. Shared by 寻找嵌入式 on nowcoder, 1970-01-01
1First roundTechnicalA friendly project-driven round. The process has two interview rounds in total.Covered: Project protocols and responsibilities, ARM special registers (PC, LR), CAN configuration and CAN vs CAN FD, SRAM memory layout, FreeRTOS context switching, Variable-length UART reception, Toolchains used
Embedded Software Engineer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 机械人的嵌入式之路 on nowcoder, 1970-01-01
1Second roundTechnicalHardware selection, bus protocols and FreeRTOS scheduling questions grounded in the candidate's project.Covered: MCU selection criteria, Typical memory bugs and HardFault registers, SPI vs I2C vs CAN, I2C transactions and debugging, Task partitioning in the project, Inter-task communication APIs in FreeRTOS, FreeRTOS scheduling, preemption and time slicing
R&D Engineer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 又在摸鱼的亚瑟很想去三亚看海 on nowcoder, 2026-10-11
1Online written testOnline assessmentMultiple-choice sections, one math-style coding problem and an AI-assisted coding task scored by tests.Covered: General and Java multiple choice, Linear combination range problem, AI-assisted coding task
AI Algorithm Engineer (data)
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 前程似锦的嘟教授很喜欢走神 on nowcoder, 2026-10-11
1Online written testOnline assessmentMixed multiple choice and coding problems. No inference deployment questions appeared.Covered: Sequence rearrangement, Probability, C++ templates and compilers, Sorting and tree traversals, Perceptrons and deep learning
AI Research Algorithm Engineer (computer vision)
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by Bylan不摆烂 on nowcoder, 2026-10-11
1Online written testOnline assessmentA two-hour test with 23 multiple-choice questions and three coding problems.Covered: Machine learning and CV, C++ and Python, Probability and calculus, Equalizing boxes with minimum operations, Representable integers in a range, Rearranging so no window repeats
iFLYTEK interviews: FAQ
What is the interview process like at iFLYTEK?
This guide draws on 19 first-hand interview accounts from Nowcoder. Candidates describe about 1 round on average, most often technical interviews, an online assessment and behavioral interviews.
What topics does iFLYTEK test in interviews?
Commonly reported topics include Locks, Internship challenges, AI-assisted coding task, Rvalue references and move semantics, Thread-safe singleton, Thread pool design.
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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