I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Huawei Technologies (Hong Kong) in Nov 2022
Interview
Three round interviews: one round for research presentation to the group, second round with leader interview, and third round for HR.
The research presentation lasts about an hour. You will discuss the details with multiple interviewers and consider how to commercialize it.
The leader interview is short. Just briefly introduce yourself and your project experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Introduce your recent research projects.
What's your contribution to the projects?
How do you collaborate with co-workers?
Do you have any questions for me?
I interviewed at Huawei Technologies (Calgary, AB)
Interview
1) 1 hour of technical discussion involving past experience and projects and state of art research
2) 1 hour of leetcode style questions to solve + technical question related to ML coding
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical discussion: asked about diffusion models and transformers
I interviewed at Huawei Technologies (Toronto, ON)
Interview
three steps, one technical, one presentation and Q&A, one screen call from recruiter about salary and availability for full/part time and how long. The presentation was on the site and in person
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Huawei Technologies (Toronto, ON) in Nov 2025
Interview
Tech interview, was asked to debug a CNN on google colab, had some hint but the interviewer was quite chill as hes aware of how rare people code without any AI support nowadays.
Researcher applicants have rated the interview process at Huawei Technologies with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Researcher roles take an average of 2 days to get hired, when considering 6 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 Researcher according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 13%
Personality test: 13%
Group panel interview: 13%
Background check: 13%
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