Huawei interview experience (memory version) - take a look at the suggestions for joining Huawei

I have graduated two years ago. I just saw the previous comparison, so I will send it to everyone to take a look.

One side

Originally, I was arranged to do two things. Half of the interviews were conducted, but in fact the interview was conducted on a first-come, first-served basis, and it was my turn not long after I arrived. One side was probably the legendary technical side, one-on-one, and the interviewer was a young-looking older brother. Let me start by introducing myself within five minutes. Oh, I have to say that I was quite brave. I simply spent more than ten seconds telling him my personal information and then told him directly that I was not very good at introducing myself. The fact is that when I first came in, I suddenly felt a little nervous for some reason and my mind went blank. . . He didn't mind too much. He looked at my resume and said, "Isn't your resume quite amateurish?" I quickly argued that I was used to writing things in markdown, and then admitted that I didn't understand it very well. . . After flipping through a few pages, he said, "Well, it's quite personal." Then he asked me about the project experience in my resume bit by bit. He asked about some basic information. As long as the project was done by myself, it was basically not difficult. After asking about my project experience, I started to ask some "routine" questions, such as "What is your understanding of classes" and "What is your understanding of data structures such as linked lists and trees". Of course, there are no standard answers to these questions, and he will not ask further questions after answering them. Then he saw that I wrote in my resume that I had been using Python recently, so he asked me, "What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of Python compared to languages ??like C++?" It was an open question, and he would not dwell too much on the details. One answer and it's basically over. Then he asked me about the languages ??I was good at and where I expected to work.

He basically led the whole topic, but his ideas came from his resume, and his questions were very natural, without any intention of making things difficult. I feel that compared to coding ability, they should value life and learning attitude, learning ability, and the ability to turn theory into application. One time when I was answering a question about a project, I accidentally said, "This project was started because a classmate came to me to solve a problem, so I did some research on it." He said that this was pretty good.

Asked me if I was willing to accept the challenge, and I said yes. . .

The interviewers will also look at the transcripts. It seems that they are more interested in the scores in mathematics, data structures, compilation principles, and operating systems. Seeing that my scores are not bad, they gave me a few compliments.

However, at the end of the interview, he also made some suggestions to me:

He felt that I studied many and complicated things, and might need a particularly prominent place to highlight myself. . But seeing that I was "only" a junior, he said there was no rush. . .

He seemed to complain that I didn’t describe much of the technical details of my project, and I said it wasn’t very clear. . .

Generally speaking, although I feel that my answer is not very good, at least it is not embarrassing. The whole atmosphere is quite harmonious. I feel that the main thing is to relax. Basically, as long as you act brighter, you don't need to show your best side, just show your most ordinary side. I feel that the interviewer has a lot of difficulty. He has to evaluate you in many aspects in a short time, and then write a report and lead the conversation, and we only need to answer questions. . . The interviewer himself was nice. He spoke a little fast, but he was very clear in his explanations. He fully respected his personal opinions when making comments, and his language was very friendly. ?

Ermian

Ermian is the legendary boss face. I didn’t expect it to end so soon. Since there was only one boss coming, it was relatively slow to face. The first person I interviewed was lucky enough to have a 1v1, and the students behind me changed it to 2v1 and 3v1 considering the time limit. . . It's the legendary group show. Although I haven't experienced it, it's said to be a bit painful, as if two people are asking a question to complement each other.

Let me briefly talk about my experience.

Ermian gives me the feeling of talking about life. The boss was very easy-going and didn't introduce himself. He didn't look at the resume I brought with me. It seemed that all the previous materials had been collected by him. I feel like the great thing about the boss is that he will inadvertently ask you what you think about some things while chatting with you. The questions come so naturally that I don’t even know whether he is chatting or asking questions.

Unlike the elder brother who is always busy reading materials and coding, he basically doesn't read any materials or memorize anything, but "chats" with you wholeheartedly. And he is particularly good at summarizing what others have said. Regarding a question, I may say a few scattered points, but he can use one word to grasp the key points of what I said.

During the chat, I said that I am relatively short-sighted, I have never been to any fashionable places, and I am shy when meeting people, but the boss said that this is OK, which means that I spend all my time on research technology. I also said that I was not very good at giving speeches, and he seriously guided me to analyze how to make a good speech.

As for specific questions, he first asked me to talk about my feelings about coming here, what I wanted to gain from coming here, what I thought were my outstanding qualities, etc. Then we talked about Huawei, a company that will be expanded in the future. The building will be more beautiful and there will be more people. Then he started asking me about my future plans. In short, his suggestion is that if you have the ability to enter Huawei as an undergraduate, you don’t need to study as a research monk. In summary, it is probably:

Everything you learn from working at Huawei is What graduate students cannot learn

After a few more classes, you can basically do well. At this time, the new graduate students may become your subordinates

After graduate school You don’t want to work yet, but our Huawei is already a top company, what else do you want?

If you were an interviewer and you met an undergraduate with three years of Huawei work experience and a graduate student with no experience, what would you do? Who to choose

In terms of the evaluation mechanism, Huawei does not treat undergraduates and graduate students differently. Everything depends on ability

There is a small detail that I find interesting, that is, he is talking about the so-called comparison. When he mentioned Huawei as a more powerful company, I thought he might say something like BAT, but he turned out to be talking about Amazon. . .

Then we discussed things like Huawei’s overtime culture, and he expressed two points:

Almost all successful companies work overtime. Except, of course, National Grid. . .

Huawei does not make a person useless. For example, he and the interviewer in front of him looked useless and asked me to guess his age. . .

Then I asked about Huawei’s strange problem of hiring people from school (it felt a bit like trying to commit suicide). He said that this is normal, and also gave an example of a well-known Internet company that requires half a year to review a person. .

That's basically it. Then he said that the chat took too long and there were many people to meet (I was stunned for a while before I realized that it meant it was over...). When I was leaving, I asked him when he would be notified, and he said that we should wait for the news together.

By the way, Huawei has N rounds of interviews. If the one the HR chats with can be considered a phone interview, forget it or not. 4 rounds of technical interviews + qualification interviews + personality test + 2 rounds of comprehensive interviews + English Speaking test = 9 rounds. In fact, normally it should be 5 rounds. Special reminder for the English oral test. If your speaking is not very good or your speaking is not bad, but the interview environment is relatively easy to be nervous, it is recommended to prepare in advance. The best way is to find a simple interview course online to learn it. It can be done temporarily, and the effect will be good. It’s still pretty good. I’ll share the website I studied before. If you need it, you can take a look. They have a special interview English course: /u/ddz/GvOWusKdf