Research Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Huawei Technologies with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Research Scientist roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 3 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 Scientist according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Presentation: 33%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Huawei Technologies (London, England) in Mar 2026
Interview
The interview began with LeetCode-style coding problems to assess algorithmic fundamentals, followed by in-depth discussions on AI infrastructure, covering distributed training, inference serving, data pipelines, resource scheduling, and system design for large-scale machine learning systems.
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Question 1
The interview started with a LeetCode-style coding problem and then focused on AI infrastructure topics, including distributed training pipelines, large-scale model serving, resource scheduling, and system design considerations for production ML systems.
They conducted a take home coding test and subsequent interview rounds in which they tested ML concepts. There was also a coding round with leetcode questions on linked list operations.
I applied online. I interviewed at Huawei Technologies (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Interview
Had 3 hours of interview, starting with 30 minutes presentation about previous work and research. Second hour covered ml system design, third hour covered paper reading and implementation with live coding session
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why don’t you go and work for google and microsoft :D ? The interviewer seemed not interested in the interview while checking his laptop and joking about multi tasking