JingChi (WeRide) Interview

Yesterday I participated in an intern interview with JingChi Technology. This internship interview was arranged uniformly by the lab, not something I found myself.

The format was online interview. There were two rounds in total, each expected to last one hour, but the second round actually only asked questions for half an hour. The first round used Skype. The call quality was poor, and there was no video output. The second round used WeChat voice plus collabedit, and the effect was much better.

The technical interviews were both very simple. After all, they were hiring coding interns for a data annotation platform, so naturally the requirements were extremely low. I felt like I was about to be sold cheaply.

First Interview

The first interview asked about projects and one valid parentheses problem.

Second Interview

The second interview asked about projects and one 3Sum problem. During the process, because the projects I wrote on my resume were a series of small projects from my internship in the ACT Cloud Computing and System Security group during junior year, plus my senior-year graduation project, especially the junior-year projects were fragmented little projects and were already too long ago, I could not remember many details. So I simply mentioned the two internships I did in senior year. After hearing that I had interned at Kuaishou for three months, Eric, the interviewer for the second round, became very interested. He chatted with me for a while about my internship experience, then started talking about some technical details at JingChi and the requirements for interning at JingChi Technology.

HR Interview

After I returned to the dorm in the afternoon, the HR lady called me for another 20 minutes. We just chatted about some internship and company-related questions. Through this conversation, I also gained a better understanding of JingChi Technology.

JingChi had only about 150 people in total, with headquarters in Guangzhou. It had R&D centers in Beijing and Silicon Valley. The Beijing side had just been established and had only seven or eight people. The Silicon Valley side had 60+ people. Most of the staff were concentrated in Guangzhou.

I also asked her about transferring to Silicon Valley. She said most people on the Silicon Valley side were directly hired there, but excellent employees could also go there if they wanted, probably just to attract me. There were even employees receiving Silicon Valley salaries while working in China. Wouldn’t that mean an extremely high annual salary, relatively speaking, compared with China?

From the conversations with Eric and HR, I felt that JingChi really lacked people. I guess all of us would be hired; after all, we were cheap.

My plan is to intern for three months first, get to know some people, and learn some skills. After that, I will find a way to jump out again. Continuing to intern has relatively low marginal returns.

In short, I do not have much time left now. Whatever I do, I must not forget my original intention…