Honda Research Institute USA Interview Questions
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Honda Research Institute USA
PhD Intern
Intern Average Positive experience Accept offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Presentation Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Presentation Technical Coding
The interview had three parts. First, a 10-15 min research presentation with Q&As. Second, an interview with questions related to your field, like general ML and Robotics. They'll also ask engineering questions about how you'd design solutions. Third, there was a coding interview. It wasn't exactly like LeetCode but also not super specific to the domain. They were helpful during the coding part.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Could you elaborate on ROS concepts such as topics, nodes, subscribers, and publishers?
Honda Research Institute USA
Robotics Software Engineer
Mid Average Positive experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding
It was a single round, and the team lead interviewed me. They were asking questions about my Python, C++, and ROS2 programming knowledge. I was interviewed for the autonomy team that develops software for off-road autonomous vehicles.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Could you write a simple ROS2 node in Python that includes two subscribers and one publisher? The node should process data from the subscribers to perform calculations and then publish the outcome.
Honda Research Institute USA
Research Engineer
Mid Average Positive experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Presentation Onsite
Interview formats
Presentation Behavioral
It was pretty weird. We had a one-hour presentation, and then I talked with the team members for four hours. These were one-on-one chats with the senior folks in the group I'd be joining. We just had a casual chat about what I'd done before and how it fit the job I applied for. I think they really wanted to see if my past projects were relevant to the role.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- Can you tell me about your research projects?
- How would you approach solving problems within the domain you've applied for?
- What subjects did you study in your courses?
Honda Research Institute USA
Intern
Intern Average Negative experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical
I had this video interview with two teams at the same time for an internship role, which was a bit challenging. I actually wished they would have interviewed me separately. They went over a lot of questions about my research and my background. They also asked a bunch of C++ syntax questions, and then they gave me a coding question to solve.
Confirmed questions1 question
- One coding question was asked, along with questions about my background.
Honda Research Institute USA Interview Questions
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“What are the loss functions in SVM?”
Read reports →“Could you write a simple ROS2 node in Python that includes two subscribers and one publisher? The node should process data from the subscribers to perform calculations and then publish the outcome.”
Read reports →“Could you tell me about a specific paper from CVPR 2018?”
Read reports →“Could you elaborate on ROS concepts such as topics, nodes, subscribers, and publishers?”
Read reports →“How would you implement methods for reducing overfitting?”
Read report →“How would you post process some collected vehicle data?”
Read report →“Can you answer some basic ML questions?”
Read report →“What subjects did you study in your courses?”
Read report →“Could you describe your work at Honda Research?”
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