Former Huawei Prodigy Walks Out of DeepSeek Interview After Plagiarism Accusation

On July 6, former Huawei "genius boy" Li Bojie posted on social media about his experience with DeepSeek's interview process, describing it as slow and overly complicated.

After passing the written test, he waited half a month before an interview was finally arranged, while other companies had already extended offers; only after repeated follow‑ups was the interview scheduled.

During the second interview, the interviewer arrived late. In the coding round, which used two screens, the interviewer claimed Li was constantly glancing at the left screen and accused him of copying code, ordering him to stop and stating that the interview would end if he could not prove he was not copying.

Feeling seriously offended, Li chose to terminate the interview and noted that the interviewer's behavior differed from his expectations of DeepSeek.

Li Bojie holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China, was among the first participants in Huawei's "genius boy" program, and has published papers at top conferences such as SIGCOMM, SOSP, NSDI, ATC, and PLDI. He has received the ACM China Excellent Doctoral Dissertation award and the Microsoft Scholar scholarship, and is currently the chief scientist at Pine AI, focusing on large‑model startups.

The report is sourced from a comprehensive news article.