I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Honda Research Institute USA (San Jose, CA) in Nov 2020
Interview
Very technical and broad, good assessment of domain knowledge and skill-set, not too friendly but also not aggressive, just professional, helpful, some questions were too off-topic but rather easy to answer, generally positive experience
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There was a coding question, asking about some algorithm although the position was not software engineer-related
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. I interviewed at Honda Research Institute USA (Mountain View, CA)
Interview
I had applied through their website.
I had one round of phone interviews with a research scientist. The interviewer explained the role, asked basic ML questions, and presented a problem related to the internship role.
I got an offer later on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic ML questions.
Loss functions in SVM.
Implement methods for reducing overfitting.