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Updated May 24, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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SRAM Design at QUALCOMM CDMA
Posted Dec 9, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 in San Diego, CA (took 2 weeks)
list several ways to design a low power SRAM. How the temperature affect SRAM performance. Effect of VDD scaling. design for multiple read ports. Basic 6T and 8T SRAM structure.
Also ask for project experience.
Phone is not clear, have a hard time to understand. The interviewer is nice. HR response is quick.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Product Planner at QUALCOMM CDMA
Posted Dec 7, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 in San Diego, CA (took 1 week)
Talked on the phone with the hiring manager.
No difficult questions, he really wanted to get to know me- my skills and my personalities. Be true to yourself is the key.
After a week, he told me the position has been filled internally.
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Test Engineer at QUALCOMM CDMA
Posted Nov 19, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in San Diego, CA (took 2 weeks)
I applied to the company on their career website; previously knew about them since they are a very large and prominent company in San Diego. Got an e-mail from HR a few days later to schedule a phone interview.
Phone interview consisted of two, 45-min interview: a HR person, talking extremely fast about Qualcomm (benefits, etc.) and a short general interest question (Why Qualcomm?), as well as a technical phone interview. The technical interview were just some basic object oriented questions, some specifics on Java (references), and one string manipulation question.
One thing that stuck out to me: the technical phone interviewer did not seem too knowledgeable. She asked me to swap two variables without a temp: gave her the usual XOR answer; she then asked if java had a XOR method. *face-palm* Wasn't sure if she knew how to code or she just knew java after that...
The scheduler got back to me in a week or so to go forward with an on-site interview. I think it got scheduled about 10 days or so later. The on-site interview took up an entire day, and consisted of 7 people, one of who took me out to lunch.
The first person was your basic guide into the company; she basically got a good grasp of what kind of expertise I might have, and added a person the interview list. Second person was awesome, took me out to lunch, but didn't ask questions while eating (I generally like people who understand the importance of food). He mostly asked questions about stacks, linked lists vs, arrays, etc. Next guy asked mostly about working in group dynamics. Most of the interviewers asked "How would you test ____?" and expect you to come up with test cases.
The only hiccup was that the added-on interviewer wasn't quite as prepared as everyone else, but given that it was changed at last minute that was understandable.
Didn't hear back from HR for two weeks, so I sent a follow-up email. HR e-mailed back saying that QCT was going under a re-org, so even though I did well in the interview, they likely won't be hiring anyone for a while. :(
Other Notes:
PROS -- free lunch~ and free candy in the waiting room :D their facilities are awesome and they let you play with display devices (HTC phones, kindle, nook, anything with a Qualcomm chip in it) in their waiting room in the career building. Also, they will give you rides if you didn't bring a car. They were extremely organized and very professional. (No long waiting times, no interviewers goofing off).
CONS -- Feet hurt a lot after walking back and forth between two buildings. (Would not suggest shoes that wear out their comfort after 2 hours). Rather long wait time between the phone and the on-site interview.
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Can a stack be a queue? Can a queue be a stack?
What were your group projects like? How did you decide who did what? Do you prefer to work in groups or alone? Do you prefer big groups or small groups? What's the difference between with just 1 partner vs. many people?
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Write strrev (string reverse) in place. (temp char is fine)
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Intern - Software Engineer at QUALCOMM CDMA
Posted Nov 16, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 in San Diego, CA (took a day)
Apply online, got phone interview with 2 interviewer:
A staff level engineer for the QuIC Linux Multimedia San Diego Team, and a senior staff / manager level engineer for the QCT CoreBSP Peripherals San Diego Team
Totally less than 1 hour
They are looking for someone who has taken classes like the Operating System, Date Structure and Algorithm. Language: C/C++, not really Java.
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ASIC Design at QUALCOMM CDMA
Posted Nov 8, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in San Diego, CA (took 2 weeks)
Got a call from a manager, He asked me several questions like
1. transistor size for a nand gate
2. max and min time violation
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ASIC Wireless Modem Systems Engineer at QUALCOMM CDMA
Posted Oct 18, 2010
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in San Diego, CA (took a day)
An Indian guy called me on the phone. Asked me two questions about my resume and then two communications questions. Then he started math puzzles, he seemed extremely interested in math puzzles, after two math puzzles, he just wanted to continued with more math puzzles. I had to interrupt to ask him to give some more details about this job position. He was CLEARLY IRRITATED at my request (that he should ask job specific questions) and DISCONTINUED the interview. I subsequently got a normal REJECTION notice from Qualcomm HR.
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Engineering at QUALCOMM CDMA
Posted Sep 3, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 (took 4 weeks)
Applied on-line. Received e-mail requesting phone interview. Phone interview went well and received an e-mail for on-site interview. On-site interview was w/ 6 technical and recruiter, 7 hours total. All arrangements were planned well. Overall was a great experience. It has been a little over two weeks and no feedback on outcome of interview.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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RF/Comm Sys Eng at QUALCOMM CDMA
Posted Aug 29, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 (took a day)
it was a long process. received an email from staffing co-ordinator to setup a phone interview. it was very interactive- abt prev exp. of software development, projects with some briefing and related basics - whatever was on my resume. After a month's time,flew to san diego. 1 HR and 5 technical- Managers, leads. HR spoke abt the process n stuff. my first interviewer was late by 20 mins but anyways it was lunch time- was interactive throughout and gave a lot of attention to details of my project work- asked a few scenarios. Then 2 managers- basics of RF, digital comm.- the same questions were asked !! then with the Leads- C/C++ coding questions - bit manipulation, sorting, searching, datastructures; imp. be sure to capture the rare cases/ exceptions-gives a good impression on ur coding ability Overall it was manageable. Just be thorugh with whats on your resume, brush up on fundamentals and good coding skills with OO; keep talking and be assertive. Good luck!
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Reason for Declining
I already had another at hand and chose to go for it.
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DSP Firmware Engineer at QUALCOMM CDMA
Posted Jul 15, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Santa Clara, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Passed Phone interview. Asked questions about DSP assembly. How do you perform a modulo without using the modulo operator? Asked about macm and how it handles 32bit multiplication.
Next step was an onsite interview. About 6 hours. Asked questions about wireless theory, space-time block codes, OFDM, MIMO and fourier analysis. Had to write a C function that reversed bits given two indices in an int. More C questions about multi-threading, some questions about hardware and assembly languages.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Software Engineer at QUALCOMM CDMA
Posted Jul 16, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in San Diego, CA (took a day)
1 hr interview. Questions on the subject of RTOS, Data Structures and C++ logic programming. There were 2 questions towards the end of the interview where I was asked to code and read it out.
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