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TLDR

Curated technical interview questions and answers from top Chinese tech companies like Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu, covering systems, databases, and algorithms.

Mindmap

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    Companies
      Alibaba
      Tencent
      Baidu
      ByteDance
    Topics
      MySQL internals
      Redis
      Distributed systems
      Networking
    Interview prep
      Backend engineering
      Infrastructure roles
      High-performance systems
    Content types
      Real interview questions
      Detailed technical answers
      System design scenarios

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Prepare for backend engineering interviews at Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, or other major Chinese tech companies.

USE CASE 2

Study distributed systems design patterns and real-world scenarios like handling viral social media posts.

USE CASE 3

Learn MySQL index structures, Redis internals, and database optimization techniques used in production systems.

USE CASE 4

Practice high-performance C++ and Java server development interview questions with detailed solutions.

Tech stack

PythonMySQLRedisMongoDBNginxZookeeper

Getting it running

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In plain English

This repository is a curated collection of technical interview questions and detailed answers from top Chinese technology companies, including Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Meituan, and Toutiao (ByteDance). The problem it solves is straightforward: preparing for a software engineering interview at a major Chinese tech company requires deep knowledge of low-level systems, databases, algorithms, and high-performance computing topics, and these questions are hard to find collected in one place. The README describes it as an ongoing summary updated through 2025. The content is organized by company and by topic. The company-specific sections contain questions that have reportedly been asked in real interviews at each firm, along with answers that go into technical depth. The topic-specific sections cover MySQL internals (like index structures and point-in-time recovery), Redis, MongoDB, Nginx, Zookeeper, networking, memory management, CPU architecture, disk I/O, algorithm problems, concurrency, and security. The README is primarily in Chinese and the questions are specific enough to include scenarios like designing a distributed email system, analyzing how a Weibo celebrity's post crashes the system, and understanding FPGA computational performance. You would use this repository when studying for backend or infrastructure engineering interviews at large Chinese tech companies. It is particularly useful for candidates targeting positions in distributed systems, high-performance C++ or Java server development, or database engineering. The repository's listed language is Python, but most content is Markdown documentation rather than runnable code. The topics tag includes cpu, high-performance, interview, MongoDB, MySQL, network, Nginx, and Redis.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I'm interviewing at Alibaba for a backend role. Help me understand the MySQL index questions in this interview reference and explain point-in-time recovery.
Prompt 2
Use this Chinese tech company interview collection to quiz me on Redis data structures and explain how they handle high-concurrency scenarios.
Prompt 3
Based on these interview questions, walk me through designing a distributed email system and explain the trade-offs in the architecture.
Prompt 4
Help me prepare for a Tencent infrastructure interview by explaining the networking and CPU architecture questions in this reference.
Prompt 5
Explain the Weibo celebrity post crash scenario from these interview questions and how distributed systems would handle that load.
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