This guide draws on 6 first-hand interview accounts from Nowcoder. Candidates describe about 1 round on average, most often technical interviews, an online assessment and behavioral interviews.
These 6 writeups cover software engineering roles. All of them were posted under a forum handle, so we could not verify the authors’ identities.
Internship. 1 round. Shared by AAA玉面手雷王 on nowcoder, 2026-09-20
1HR interviewBehavioralHR probed plans, academics, past internship and availability in depth.Covered: Career plans, Other offers, Internship experience, Motivation for game development, AI usage, Salary expectations
Full-stack engineer
Not selected
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 尺玉 on nowcoder, 2026-09-21
1First interviewTechnicalDeep questioning on cross-platform frontend internship work and an AI knowledge base project.Covered: UniApp multi-platform adaptation, Mini program subpackage loading, IME composition and search, Stale request race conditions, Long list rendering, RAG routing and caching, AI-assisted development workflow
Game server developer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 烦恼的喜羊羊在摸鱼 on nowcoder, 2026-09-24
1First interviewTechnicalInternship performance work followed by broad backend, OS and database fundamentals.Covered: Motivation for game server work, Recall module latency and parallelization, Two-level caching and Guava expiry, Redis pre-deduction with MQ consistency, Cache penetration and hot keys, CAS vs locks, User-to-kernel mode switch, Deadlocks, B-trees and MVCC, redo, undo and binlog, TCP vs UDP
Game server developer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 烦恼的喜羊羊在摸鱼 on nowcoder, 2026-09-24
1Second interviewTechnicalProject impact, game networking questions and a DP counting problem with a boundary twist.Covered: Agent SDK token reduction and evaluation, Context design inspired by coding agents, C++ and Linux crash debugging with GDB, Exploring large codebases with AI, Game server vs web backend, UDP vs TCP and QUIC for real-time games, Counting attack sequences with DP
Role not stated
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, 2026-09-19
1Written testOnline assessmentOne hard grid BFS problem and an AI coding task with only basic self-written tests and no scoring feedback.Covered: Two-person grid meeting BFS, AI coding task in Python or JavaScript
Full-Stack Developer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 1 round. Shared by 鱼专 on nowcoder, 2026-09-19
1Written testOnline assessmentOne complex grid search problem and an AI coding task that could only be checked for running, not graded.Covered: Two-person grid meeting BFS, AI coding task
This guide draws on 6 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 NetEase test in interviews?
Commonly reported topics include Two-person grid meeting BFS, Career plans, Other offers, Internship experience, Motivation for game development, AI usage.
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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