I interviewed at Honda Research Institute USA (San Jose, CA) in Feb 2026
Interview
Interviewed with three team members, gave a 30 minute presentation on my research and the rest was for questions from the team. Although my research was relevant for the question raised in the internship call, I had a slightly different perspective which is more human centered. The team seems to be focused on technical aspects of the problem rather than the direction I was hoping to explore. Rejection came in email after 2-3 weeks.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Honda Research Institute USA (San Jose, CA) in Aug 2024
Interview
It consists of three different parts
Research presentation: 10-15 min presentation about my research and Q&As
Relative field Q&A: Interviewer would ask questions related to your job. Such as general ML questions, Robotics questions, etc. They will also ask engineering questions about how you will design solution for some problems.
Coding interview: It also had coding interview. It is bit different from leet code style but also not domain specific questions. They will provide good help during the coding interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you explain about ROS topics, nodes, subscriber, publisher, etc?
I interviewed at Honda Research Institute USA (San Jose, CA)
Interview
1h interview with presentation and different questions related to the research. 2nd round I was asked to write a write-up about some specific question. then third round is with the group lead and team lead.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would your research can be applied to their projects