I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Feb 2012
Interview
First Round (Telephonic) : Basics of LTE and LTE TDD , RTOS concepts , a question on C programming, Q format conversions.
In person Round 1 : RTOS concepts, LTE L1 system architecture, embedded C questions mainly on bit operations,priority inversion, WDT,Paging concepts,Reentrant functions,Hard and Soft real time systems and wireless domain specific questions.
The c questions were:
1. To set 'N' bits in a number efficiently , N is a variable.
2. Find the number of SET bits (1s) in a given number.
3. Q format conversion.
4. Bit field structures.
5. How to find whether a DSP is Little endian or big endian?
In person Round 2 : Fempto cell systems since I worked on it.
In person Round 3: Wireless communication basics and LTE basics , mainly from 3GPP specifications.
HR Round : Was a formality and I was told feedback would be given after a week .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To set 'N' bits in a number efficiently , N is a variable.
I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Farnborough, London, England) in Jun 2026
Interview
Three weeks after applying, I was invited to a 30-minute screening interview for this Friday. However, only 20 minutes before the scheduled start time, they requested to reschedule to Monday. Given that I had already rearranged my day to accommodate the original meeting, I chose to withdraw my application out of respect for my own time.
I approach interviews spontaneously, focusing on genuine technical discussions rather than memorized answers. I share real experiences from my embedded software projects, discussing complex issues with sensor integration very naturally.
It will be 3 round interview process with 2 round technical and 3 will be managerial round .
In Technical round it would be DSA : LinkList, Bit manupulation mostly
They would ask regarding oops concept .They will also ask regarding question mentioned in resume . It would be interactive .
In managerial round you could be asked about work related stuf and salary expectation
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