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Updated Feb 18, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Very Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 in Boulder, CO (took 4 weeks)

Telephonic interview invitation via email. Scheduled after 2 weeks(they are flexible with dates).
Interviewer was very friendly. It was a test of very basic C and Hardware knowledge
Got result after 2 weeks via email.
Got rejected due to lack of preparation.

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Basic C (switch v ifelse, char pointers, linked list etc)

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Name all pins of a 20 pin microprocessor if you were to design one for a small application and related questions

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Oct 2010 in Boulder, CO (took 3 weeks)

Interviewers are very cordial and asked good and relevant questions. Initially had a phone followed followed by on site interview. In total I had 6 rounds of interview. Interview started in the morning and lasted till evening.

Interview Questions

datastructures and algorithms

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2011 in Boulder, CO (took 3 weeks)

I first got a call for a phone interview with a manager of the team. It was a one hour long interview and consisted of questions about pointers, page faults, memory leak, CPU cycles. I was asked to write a string concatenation function and a string comparison function without using the built in functions. Then as required for the position he asked me a lot of questions about 3D computer graphics. Then I was also asked simple concepts in C++ like copy constructor, deep copy, shallow copy and so on. If your basic concepts of CS are clear you can go through this interview. Then I was scheduled for a second phone interview. This interview was more Computer Graphics oriented. The interviewer emailed me two textured images and asked lots of questions on them. Then he asked me more position oriented questions like define benchmarks for the game you are playing on your smartphone. This interview was more technical than the first one and drilled through all the concepts required for the position. Then I got a call for an on-site interview which mainly consisted of my past experience. I was asked to write a code to find the most frequent character in a string. Overall it was a very good experience interviewing with Qualcomm. The interview process was very specific.

Interview Questions

Based on the texture images I just emailed you, what do you think must have gone wrong? How would you fix it?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2010 in Boulder, CO (took 3 weeks)

So I am not actually through the entire interview process. I submitted my application and within two weeks I received a request for a technical telephone interview. I passed the first telephone interview and had another one the week after that. I also passed the second technical one and now I will be flying to Boulder, CO next week. Does anyone have any insights on what may be asked and what I can study besides reading through glassdoor and reading the programming interviews exposed book?