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Updated Feb 11, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior IT Engineer at QUALCOMM
Posted Dec 18, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 in San Diego, CA (took a day)
I had an initial phone interview with the hiring manager. Once I passed the phone screening, I had an on-site interview with most of the staff members in a panel format. I had an offer within a week from the on-site interview. Very impressed with the professionalism of everyone involved.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Modem Test Engineer at QUALCOMM
Posted Dec 14, 2011
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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 Dec 2011 in San Diego, CA (took a day)
I am posting list of questions i faced in the interview:
1.Binary search
2.swap two numbers without temp
3.uplink lte
4.cyclic prefix
5.peak to average power ratio
6.handover techniques
7.some things in the resume
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Supplier Quality Engineer at QUALCOMM
Posted Dec 9, 2011
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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 Dec 2011 in San Diego, CA (took 2 days)
I was interviwed for this position last week. I initially got a phone call from the hiring manager and after speaking to me for 30 mins called me onsite.
The onsite interview was tiring. I was interviwed by 11 folks !...2 HR and 9 technical. Everyone asked me about my past internship and current expereinces in IC fab and assembly along with statistics analaysis. I answered most questions well but did flounder on a few.
I was primarily a recent college graduate working in semiconductor industry and had noe xperience as a SQE. I was kind of drilled on that but tried to convince them how my skills could be used for this posn. Overall it was good and am keeping fingers crossed !
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Test Intern at QUALCOMM
Posted Dec 9, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took a day)
I had a telephone interview for a test Intern position at Qualcomm, Interview was simple wherein I was asked questions on Testing processes, C, C++, some Unix commands, Yet to hear from them.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer - USB at QUALCOMM
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)
Interview was very tough, expect to know every basic and tiny little of 'C' programming, i guess i did not study well, so i did not clear the phone interview
1. say u have 3 files, and a header file which has a static variable declaration in it. you include the header file in the 3 files.. what happens... u get any error or what would happen to the system, and from here on the question flow continues.
2. say you have a 32 bit system, and structure with char, int and double variables. what is the size of structure. again from here on question continues on memory alignment. how is alignment usually performed. and how do you force the structure to have the exact size removing the alignment.
3. program to find little and big endian(yes it was only phone interview) - well this is just 1 line expression anyways..
Interview Questions
2. say you have a 32 bit system, and structure with char, int and double variables. what is the size of structure. again from here on question continues on memory alignment. how is alignment usually performed. and how do you force the structure to have the exact size removing the alignment.
3. program to find little and big endian(yes it was only phone interview) - well this is just 1 line expression anyways..
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Senior Software Engineer at QUALCOMM
Posted Dec 7, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Hyderabad (India) (took 2 months)
I had applied in Qualcomm San Diego Online. My CV was shortlisted and I was interviewed by the Windows Device Drivers Team in Qualcomm for USB. Although I did very well answering 100% of the questions, but the hiring was not international. They pushed in my CV to QIPL with a recommendation. This was a telephonic interview for about 1 hour
Finally my Interview at Hyderabad started off.
Round 1 : - Telephonic Interview with Technical Leader/Manager :- 2 Hours (USB, OS, and C )
Two weeks after my telephonic Interview, they called me for On-Site Interview
Round 2 :- Technical interview by a Peer (Senior Engineer)
Round 3 :- Techincal interview by a Peer (This is the round where I felt I didn't know anything in depth)
Round 4 and 5:- This is done by a Leads. This is also technical
Round 6 and 7 :- Manager Round (Tech Manager and Section Manager)
Round 8 :- HR Round
Interview Questions
Compiling with Static Variables?
Why do we use volatile variables?
Program to reverse a Linked List
Program to insert a node in a Linked List
Setting/Clearing of Bits in a given 32 bit number
Program to find whether a given linked List is circular. (Should be able to do this without using a flag)
Palindrome, Concatenations etc without using the string operators
Pointers:- Constant pointers and pointer to a Constant. Its usage etc
Basic C programs done at Undergraduate level also
1. Threads, semaphores, Mutex, Processes
2. Difference between a Mutex and a Semaphore
3. Spin Locks and its usage
4. Priority inversion, Priority inheritance
5. Scheduling
6. DMA Usage and Syncing
7. Virtual Memory concepts
Negotiation Details
1. There is no scope of negotiation!
2. Well be assertive in your demands. I had demanded an amount X and I got it indirectly!
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Verification Engineer at QUALCOMM
Posted Dec 3, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in San Diego, CA (took 2 weeks)
I had applied on line for the post in October and got a call by the end of October. But it was strange because they never informed me of the phone interview in advance . He asked me what i was doing now and i explained what i'm working on and when i will be graduating. He then asked me about all the project that i had done.Then concentrated on the vlsi project that i had done .Even though i haven't taken any verification courses , i had worked on test benches for my project ,so explained that. He was satisfied with my explanation and told me i can come for an on site interview.
In the on site interview , i had 3 technical rounds each of 30 min, concentrating mainly on the different projects that i have done , plus few basic qs from digital and analog design .But the questions were very direct and simple and mostly related to verification. I got the results of the interview after a week.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Embedded Software Engineer Device Drivers, Embedded Software Security Engineer at QUALCOMM
Posted Dec 1, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 in San Diego, CA (took 8 weeks)
It starts from phone screens , sometimes they go for more than one screening as they bring out peope to interview with 2-3 different teams which is one reason it takes time. It took three weeks after i was said in first phone screen that interviewer is recommending me for onsite and I should here something from HR within few days to get second interview and finally was called for full day onsite interview. Phone screens are typical and have some basic questions from volatile , static to some RTOS concepts. There was one interview with staffing specialist explaining the procedure and recruitment process, benefits , and after that had 5 1:1 interviews 2 with security team and 3 with Core-BSP and device drivers team
Lot of board work , some engineer asked to write code on his computer
Interview Questions
code was written over board and had to identify problems in it like memory leak , accessing memory location which is not allocated
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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QCT Modem Systems Test Engineer at QUALCOMM
Posted Nov 19, 2011
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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 Jul 2011 (took a day)
The HR contacted me for the QCT Modem System Test Engineer position to schedule a phone interview in the next few days. The phone interview was scheduled for 45 mins. The advice I would like to offer to other candidates is to learn the basics of mobile telecommunications and wireless networking.
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Software Intern at QUALCOMM
Posted Nov 13, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took a day)
The interviewer asked several basic coding questions including reversing a linked list and many bit manipulation questions. Also a simple math related question at the end.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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