One interview with the local product director followed by another interview 1 month later with the product's vice-president. They asked about my previous jobs and pre-sales experience, projects and technologies etc, I used to work in service provider accounts.
During the process they talked about their expectations and skills for this role, and that they were looking for someone eager in the service provider market and its opportunities, someone able to let at side its family on weekends in order to catch the opportunities. Huawei warns about the internal culture and the fast pace environment, and the specific requirements about someone able to work always overtime even weekends and holidays. During the interview, managers talk about the different benefits like a good salary, cash-bonuses, medicine, annual bonus, stock options etc.
To be honest, I was waiting for an offer in money and with the benefits according to the level of experience and skills they were looking for the role, however, when I received the call from HHRR the offer was very terrible, the payment was very low compared to the average in the industry and after the whole process they said “sorry, but there’s not a permanent contract with Huawei, instead you need to sign a temporal contract with a kind of contractor each 6-months and there is no benefits”. In other words we are looking for a senior engineer with a lot of experience and able to work ‘till death, but we gonna pay as you were someone with one or two years of experience and through a contractor without benefits and as a temporal position each 6 moths”
My advice: don’t try this company at least you're someone desperate without employ, this company doesn't care about their employees and they always want people work very hard under bad conditions. (Maybe is the Chinese culture).
They are not honest since the beginning with the type of contract and its benefits and if you are not prepared to hear a bad offer, probably you can waste your time. Salaries are below compared to Cisco, brocade, Arris, Juniper and other vendors, I would say a 30% below, and they don't hire directly but through an outsourcing company.
Other thing, they said, in the case you're able to be engage directly with Huawei (perhaps 1 year after be working as an external contractor) you'll start receiving benefits one year after you are working directly with Huawei.
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