This guide draws on 3 first-hand interview accounts from Nowcoder. Candidates describe about 1 round on average, most often technical interviews, a hiring manager interview and an online assessment.
These 3 writeups cover 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 机械人的嵌入式之路 on nowcoder, 1970-01-01
1Second roundHiring managerA formal half-hour manager interview focused on internship work, data-frame validation and debugging approach.Covered: Internship responsibilities, Project difficulties, Packet framing and checksums, Fault localization
Embedded Software Engineer
Outcome not shared
unknown. 1 round. Shared by 嵌入式速成指南 on nowcoder, 1970-01-01
1First roundTechnicalEmbedded C fundamentals and MCU runtime questions ending with designing an interrupt-safe ring buffer.Covered: const and pointers, static linkage and lifetime, volatile and optimization, Avoiding heap use on MCUs, Stack overflow diagnosis in FreeRTOS, Startup before main, Lock-free ISR-to-task ring buffer
Software Engineer
Outcome not shared
New grad. 2 rounds. Shared by JoyZhangJiayin on nowcoder, 2026-09-17
1AssessmentOnline assessmentOnline test taken the same day it was emailed.
2First roundTechnicalMostly fundamentals questions rather than projects, plus a screen-shared coding task.Covered: Language fundamentals, Coding task
NovaStar interviews: FAQ
What is the interview process like at NovaStar?
This guide draws on 3 first-hand interview accounts from Nowcoder. Candidates describe about 1 round on average, most often technical interviews, a hiring manager interview and an online assessment.
What topics does NovaStar test in interviews?
Commonly reported topics include Internship responsibilities, Project difficulties, Packet framing and checksums, Fault localization, const and pointers, static linkage and lifetime.
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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