Qualcomm Embedded Software Engineer Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Phone Interview : Pretty much standard questions about static keyword, Linked Lists and then finally the interviewer showed me few pieces of code on google docs and asked to find problems in them if any like Memory leaks. Segfaults etc. Later, I found out that the questions were picked up from some website word-to-word. I gave answers to almost all the questions but failed to notice problems well in the last two pieces of code. It's ridiculous, that it was the basis of rejection.

Also, the interviewer kept boasting about how he has worked in almost all the areas that I can possibly name. I am not saying mine was a stellar performance, but overall negative attitude by interviewer and Negative interview.

Interview Details – Applied online and contacted through email. The recruiter asked me for my available dates and time and the phone interview was setup accordingly. The interviewer was pretty straight forward. It was based on resume. Simple questions based on the projects mentioned in the resume. One question I remember was difference between regular OS and real-time OS

Interview Details – I was contacted by phone about a hiring event for their Colorado office, which took place about a month after the initial call. They flew me out to Colorado with flight, hotel, and meals paid for. Event included campus tour, Q&A session, and the interviews. There were three 45 minute interviews on computer algorithms, debugging, and multithreading.

Interview Details – 6 rounds of interviews with people from different groups. Most of the people are very nice so no need to be nervous. In the morning HR will briefly introduce to all the candidate about the company and where to to for the interview (gathered together first in the morning at one location). Then another HR personal will meet you individually then talk about some basic information about you that they would like to know first. Such as how do you know about the company and what's your expected salary, any pending or arranged interview with other companies and so on.

Negotiation Details – Got another offer from one of the competitors then they matched.

Interview Details – phone screen 45 mins.
volatile
difference bt IIR and FIR
how to implement IIR in C (feedback)
how to implement non-causal IIR
how to do division in fixed point(only substraction and plus)
matched filter
channel equalization

Interview Details – Started with a phone interview. It was pretty smooth and manager asked me a couple of technical questions (related to C basics and wireless basics) which were easy. He already told me that I will be invited to onsite on phone. After a couple of days later HR contacted me to invite for an onsite interview.

Observations:

Onsite interview started with an HR and followed with 5 more people (including 3 different groups). Even though HR told me that it is enough to convince 1 of those groups I don't think it is true. In my opinion among the all interviewers there are 1-2 key people. Therefore do not listen(focus) HR too much since the most important thing is the ability of convincing the main manager!!! She might tell you that I will score you high and try to put you a position but indeed she cannot do anything unless the main manager approves!. Its most probably to make you relax.

The onsite process was pretty good except 1 person. 1 person cross his legs and started to eat an apple with a rude way and it affected a bit my concentration.(made me a bit nervous). I think some people needs to be careful about how to treat candidates since it was really rude in Qualcomm. Being the interviewer does not mean that you can behave in rude way! However, the rest of the guys were ok. With one of them I had lunch during interview and it was pretty good. But again I don't believe it is not that important to convince a regular interviewer as long as the main manager not approves you! What I mean about regular interviewer is, by the time you will be onsite interview, HR will give you a interview schedule notebook. In there you will see your interview calender. Look at that schedule. If you see the people with the headline "manager" focus on those guys. The rest of them (like staff, engineer etc are just for formality. This is what my experience was.

In my case out of 5 people 4 of them went very good and 1 person went bad. Normally I was expected an offer from 1 or 2 different team but I could not able to get. I think the one which went bad affected other teams. He was the manager. In this case I don't understand the reason why I interviewed with other interviewer. If hiring process depends only on that person (manager) what is the point of interviewing with other 4 people?

One other issue about Qualcomm is unfortunately there is a political issues running in background. I am afraid there is a community of a country which they are dominant and I believe (and heard) they have more advantage. Even I heard this from several friends which they are from that country. This is not a fair situation too. Anyway, I believe I did my best for overall. I know there are many people joined QTC with a standard skills. If you know someone inside, I believe the rest will be detail.

One last thing. By sharing these, my aim is not accusing or insulting people or the company. I am just writing my experience. I had onsite interview with QCT more than once and being invited to onsite does not mean that you get the job. You can rejected in a situation which you believe you deserve the position. If you rejected do not loose your concentrate and keep fight! Believe me there are many people working there who does not deserve and there are many people also rejected who deserve to work there! Its up to you to prove this by working hard!

Regards,

Interview Details – One screen phone interview, questions are not hard, scope of static, detect memory corruption, inversion priority and deadlocks.

Interview Details – It is pretty simple. Asked lot of OS questions and c questions on string manipulation.

Interview Details – The over all interview was a pleasant experience. The interview consisted of 4 one on one interviewers asking technical questions and one HR session.