J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. J'ai passé un entretien chez Huawei Technologies (Paris) en janv. 2015
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I am a foreign employee, hired for a position in China. So the process I describe is specific to this situation.
I had 4 phone interviews:
- First interview: with the research team manager and an engineer from this team. Questions were focused on my background, especially related to the technologies I developed during my PhD. There were also private questions such as why I want to move to China, do you I have relatives there, do you speak chinese, etc. And I was asked for my salary expectation.
- Second interview: with the target department director, who asked similar questions (I am afraid I don't remember exactly).
- Third interview: with another research department director, who asked mostly technical questions.
- Fourth interview: with the HR, but it was actually a call to tell me that I passed all previous interviews, and give me the official salary offer. I could not negotiate at this point, so be careful to mention your salary expectations early in the process. Then I asked a bunch of question to the HR, as that was my first abroad job experience, and also to check the advantages I could get (honestly almost none).
The 4 interviews were on my mobile phone in France, and the sound quality was terrible. I advise to ask a Skype interview instead, for people who are hired in the same process.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Which non-volatile memory technology do you think is the most promising?
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Huawei Technologies (Vancouver, BC)
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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.
J'ai passé un entretien chez Huawei Technologies (Hong Kong)
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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
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 5 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Huawei Technologies (Germany) en mai 2025
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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.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
What is your opinion on Chinese culture?
Question on my experience with conflict management and tight deadlines.