Huawei Technologies Software Engineer Interview Questions
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First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Huawei Technologies.
Huawei Technologies
Software Engineer
Entry Easy Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Recruiter call
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral
The technical interviewers were professional and friendly. However, the final HR interview was the worst HR experience I've ever had, showing a major culture mismatch. It was almost rude and felt very one-sided, not giving me a chance to learn about the company. For instance, she was really surprised that I asked about what she liked and felt could be improved at the company, calling it a "strange" question and stating that since she was interviewing me, she couldn't give any judgments about the company to the candidate. She also refused to share their salary range, repeatedly stressing that as the candidate, I shouldn't ask that and should just tell her my current or expected salary. She even directly asked for the minimum I would accept. I'm not sure if this is typical at the company, but candidates should be treated with more respect.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Why did you choose to join your current employer over a larger, more recognized organization?
- What is the least amount of compensation you are prepared to accept?
Huawei Technologies
Software Developer
Mid Difficult Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Recruiter call Background check Offer
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral
I sent my cv to the hiring manager and got a technical interview with a distributed team. The technical interview was about 1 hour, tough, and focused on Q&A without live coding. Some red flags appeared after the first round when they asked me to connect to a link in 10 minutes, and I wasn't home. The next day, I spoke with an HR person who was 15 minutes late, didn't speak English well, and used translators. She seemed hostile and unaware of the countries involved. The final round was with the head of the center in China, involving general behavioral questions. I received a verbal offer and was told to wait a month, but after 4 months, they never officially responded. Some project workers mentioned I might be hired by a third-party Huawei company if I applied for additional documentation. The whole thing was quite strange.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Have you ever built a network communication library?
- What was the hardest challenge you've faced?
Huawei Technologies
Software Engineer
Mid Easy Positive experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Coding
My interview at Huawei was a really good learning experience, and it was tough too. The people interviewing me asked really specific technical questions and some tough problem-solving questions. They were really professional and nice, and they kept telling me to explain my thoughts clearly and with confidence the whole way through.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- Can you tell me about OOP?
- What do you know about Machine Learning?
- What about C++?
Huawei Technologies Software Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Huawei Technologies interview reports.
“How can you quickly count the number of set bits in a given number?”
Read reports →“A guy is on top of a 100m building with a 50m rope, how does he get down?”
Read reports →“If you are given a pointer to an element in a linked list, how would you go about deleting it?”
Read reports →“Could you tell me the size of a struct that contains a character array of size 12 and a 32-bit integer?”
Read reports →“What is the CPI for a program with 10% load instructions, given that 1% of these loads result in a cache miss?”
Read report →“Could you define what a compiler is and also explain the differences between Python and C++?”
Read report →“Can you explain why intermediate code generation is a step in the compilation process?”
Read report →“Given just a neural network and no other context, how would you identify potential overfitting?”
Read report →“Can you explain what a decision tree diagram is and how it's used for data classification?”
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