It was an informal 15-minutes interview by a recruiter over the phone.
Before interviewing, the recruiter asked me to email him my CV.
When we were done, he said the technical team will review my CV and get back to me for the interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you want to work here?
Salary expectations
Questions about my publications
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Huawei Technologies (Waterloo, ON) in May 2025
Interview
The interview was pretty hard and they asked me to derive KL divergence ELBO for VAE. I liked the interview process. HR was pretty nice too. However, I got rejected and I didn't see that coming.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
they asked me to derive KL divergence ELBO for VAE.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Huawei Technologies
Interview
Phone interview going over my technical experience. Then 4 hour coding test in C++. The coding test was basically having to write an entire program in 4 hours related to neural networks, training, and data preprocessing.
