Research Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Huawei Technologies with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Research Engineer roles take an average of 44 days to get hired, when considering 15 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Huawei Technologies overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Huawei Technologies as a Research Engineer according to 15 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 21%
Phone interview: 21%
Group panel interview: 13%
One on one interview: 11%
Skills test: 11%
Drug test: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Background check: 5%
Personality test: 3%
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I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Huawei Technologies (Germany) in May 2025
Interview
The process took 5 months.
Round 1: HR round, mostly behavioral questions.
Round 2: There was a coding test (ML + data processing + Python).
Round 3: Face 2 Face interview in office. Resume walkthrough with the hiring manager, followed by a presentation on the past works.
Round 4: Interview with the lab director and HR. Unstructured, some question related to the job description.
While the interviews were easy, scheduling took a lot of time, and the HR and the team was highly unorganized.
Some yellow/red flags.
1) HR asked about my current salary multiple times despite my refusal.
2) HR asked my experience with the Chinese culture/colleuges. Why would you pick on a nationality when Huawei claims to be an International company?
3) I was asked to present some slides in the F2F interview. The second interviewer didn't join for a long time. The HM called her. She said she didn't receive the interview invitation. So she joined remotely later. There were a lot of IT issues from their side. Ultimately, the second interviewer could not see the slides and didn't get the opportunity to ask questions. What was the point of creating the slides?
4) Cheap shots: The HR used interview with the director as a cover and made me agree on the salary range despite my refusal. This is a poor start of a professional relationship. Why would you do that? You have your salary bands and my interview performance to make that decision later.
5) I received a generic rejection email after 1 month only after I reminded HR.
6) They took 1 month to reimburse my travel costs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your opinion on Chinese culture?
Question on my experience with conflict management and tight deadlines.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Huawei Technologies (Markham, ON) in Jun 2026
Interview
the interview process basically have 4 rounds
- 2 technical interviews. The first round includes the coding assessment
- HR qualification interview
- Final interview.
I passed the first round and they moved me to the qualification round directly. The first interview lasts 1 hour. I started by telling about myself in 2-3 mins, then I had 30 mins to solve a coding problem. The problem is not hard. Next 10-15 minutes, I have a short presentation about the project that I am working on and answer some questions from them.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Huawei Technologies (Vancouver, BC)
Interview
Had two rounds of AI and Infra. Interview questions were about basic AI compute, models, LLM. Interviews were scheduled at odd hours, and includes folks from both Canada and China.
the interview process is team dependent but overall i received 1 intro interview, 1 coding test which i did ona share screen call, 1 technical interview. whole process moved pretty fast