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Staff Quality Engineer at Qualcomm CDMA
No Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA – Reviewed Jun 3, 2013
Interview Details – Initial phone interviews were positive and professional. The on site interview started off well with the HR portion. It went down hill fast. I interviewed with 5 people during the day. One interview was in the cafe next to the TV, another in the lobby of the lobby next to the coffee shop. The interviews were sketchy and unprofessional.
Interview Question – Interviews were not that technical and I was surprised by the lack of serious questions. Answer Question
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Software Engineer at Qualcomm CDMA
Declined Offer – Reviewed Apr 8, 2013
Interview Details – First they carried out telephonic interview. The telephonic interview was mainly based around Real Time OS concepts, C programming. After telephonic interview got call for onsite interview.
Interview Question – Can variable be declared with "Const" and "Volatile" quantifier ? Answer Question
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Software Engineer - LTE (C - Real-Time/Embedded) at Qualcomm CDMA
No Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 31, 2013
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Applied on LinkedIn - Got an email from in about a week for a telephonic interview. The interviewer was very cooperative, questions included a lot of basic OS concepts, C/C++ questions like volatile,static , inheritance, overloading, a question on how to find the largest sum in a given array.
Was invited to an onsite hiring event in March. The process was pretty smooth. Five rounds, the first of which was a casual HR round then interview with 4 people (team leaders to Managers). Heavy stress on bit manipulation, OS concepts, deadlocks, priority inversion, circular buffer, semaphores mutexes (prgramming based) and nitty gritties about pointers.
Results were announced within a week.
Interview Question – Pattern matching in a stream of bits and substitution with another pattern Answer Question
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Staff Software Engineer at Qualcomm CDMA
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Mar 29, 2013
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phone interview about 1 hour, very technical
on site interview: very friendly
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Hardware Engineer at Qualcomm CDMA
No Offer – Reviewed Mar 15, 2013
Interview Details – Over the phone interview lasted for around 1 hour. Interview focused on my resume contents for around 20 minutes followed by a couple of technical interview questions. No behavioral questions were asked. Questions were based on basic IIP3, SNR and cascaded Noise Figure concepts. Expect questions on CDMA communication system concepts.
Interview Question – No difficult questions were asked. The interview focused more on my technical skills and my grasp on RF Engineering fundamentals than on my behavioral aspects. Answer Question
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PTE Team for Various Positions at Qualcomm CDMA
No Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA Jan 2013 – Reviewed Jan 31, 2013
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Was contacted through phone by HR to know my availability and interest and called for the Destination Q event.
Interviewers were so cool and interviewed very basic understanding of CMOS device characteristics, IV curve, ATPG, 6T SRAM, parameters influencing power,performance, basic RC circuits..
Interview Question – No difficult questions as only basics were tested View Answers (2)
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Summer Software Intern at Qualcomm CDMA
No Offer – Interviewed in Boulder, CO Nov 2012 – Reviewed Jan 6, 2013
Interview Details – The interview started by asking about my goals and objectives for inernship . Then straight away questions from c and embedded c . some c ques were simple such as diff between static variable and constant variable . what is meant by extern in c? Asked a program on pointers . be thorough with pointers .
Interview Question – question from multithreaded programming . i dont remember the ques Answer Question
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Senior Systems Engineer at Qualcomm CDMA
Declined Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA Nov 2012 – Reviewed Dec 7, 2012
Interview Details – One hr and 4 technical interviews. I did well in 4 technical interviews which were around MAC and PHY layers: OFDM, ARQ, Queuing theory, IP/TCP. Some questions to test how I think. Overall, I like they way they ask. They are very supportive and open.
Interview Question – I did well on all questions. Got job offer after 2 days of the on-site interview but I declined. Answer Question
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Software Engineer at Qualcomm CDMA
No Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA Oct 2012 – Reviewed Oct 26, 2012
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A phone interview was set up and questions about my research work was asked. Just couple of questions on static and volatile keywords.
Onsite interview was with 5 teams and all of them were coding questions. standard C questions on linked list, function pointers, priority inversion and so on. One guy asked Math puzzles, I struggled a bit after constant coding. But i picked up towards the end
Interview Question – Math puzzles were simple, but my brain was tuned in complex thinking and switching to simple mode was bit difficult Answer Question
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Software Engineer at Qualcomm CDMA
No Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA Oct 2012 – Reviewed Oct 17, 2012
Interview Details –
I applied online. Got an email to schedule phone interview the very next day. Phone interview was mostly focused on C, OS and Networking. Since I did well on that, I was called onsite after a couple of weeks. Onsite consisted on 5 tech rounds and 1 HR round. Tech rounds are entirely focused on C, OS, problem solving skills and your resume. The interview process was very smooth and candidates were well taken care of. I am waiting to hear back from them.
Tech questions were as follows.
1. Programs for binary search, linked list node deletion, string reversal, calculate no of bits in a number in given base, division of floating point numbers.
2. Difference between macros and functions, why/where to use macros
3. Use of static
4. Scheduling
5. How to prevent deadlocks
6. What data structures is used in routers
Overall, the key is to be thorough with C, OS and memory management
Interview Question – Lunch interview was the toughest. The interviewer went deep into OS and memory management. Answer Question
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