New Delhi (CNN Business) The long-running US campaign against Huawei may be starting to hurt its business but it hasn't damaged the tech company's reputation among Chinese students looking for work.

Alibaba BABA Tencent TCEHY of more than 50,000 Chinese students by research firm Universum. Shenzhen-based Huawei has just been ranked the country's most attractive employer, beating out rivals such asand, according to a new survey of more than 50,000 Chinese students by research firm Universum.

Huawei was voted the top choice among engineering students for the second year running, and knocked Alibaba off the top spot among business students, Universum said.

The Universum survey was concluded in March this year, however, so doesn't reflect the fallout from the latest US broadside against the company — a ban on the sale of American software and services to Huawei.

"Next year, you never know how that will go," William Wu, Universum's country manager for China, told CNN Business.