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No Offer – Reviewed Mar 30, 2013
Interview Details – perform antenna R&D tasks that include antenna simulation, analysis, design and testing for portable devices such as cellular phone, ultra-mobile PC and body-worn devices. Research areas may include RF beam-forming and advanced material development for antenna applications. Technical literature search and generation of summary report may also be part of the tasks. Work will be performed under the guidance of a Sr. Antenna engineer.
Interview Question – Open technical questions Answer Question
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Intern at Qualcomm
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Mar 18, 2013
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Got a phone interview which I did well on, and it was quickly followed up with a second phone interview. Both were technical interviews that asked everything from my experiences working with a team, to technical questions about C and C++.
The interviewers were very competent and know their stuff.
Interview Question – How do you find the greatest common denominator of two numbers? View Answer
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Intern at Qualcomm
No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2012 – Reviewed Feb 25, 2013
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After talking to a representative and handing in my resume, I was contacted the following month to set up an interview. I was required to create a profile on their careers site. After that, the scheduling team set up a phone interview time.
The interview was a mix of fit, background, and technical with a focus on the former two. It began with a more open-ended questions of my personality, hobbies, and projects. Many questions were simply about past projects or experiences - they either chose things on my resume and asked me about them or asked about things like "the last time I ran into difficulties on a team and how I handled it". Only a few technical questions were asked; these I believe are left more to the next interview.
Interview Question – Question were asked about incidents or difficult experiences in past work. View Answer
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Intern at Qualcomm
No Offer – Reviewed Feb 5, 2013
Interview Details – The H/R contacted me and scheduled a phone interview for about one week later. On the interview date, one of their engineerins called me and conducted the interview which took more than one hour. First, he asked me to introduce myself and why I want to do an internship. I was then asked about my research project and things I had included in my resume. The second half of the interview was on basic questions from Matlab, C, modulations, error correction codes, etc. Mostly on fundamentals. The interviewer was very expert and nice. Two weeks later, they emailed me and said they cannot offer me the internship.
Interview Question – What was your main challenge working in a big group and how did you overcome that? Answer Question
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Intern at Qualcomm
No Offer – Interviewed in Dec 2012 – Reviewed Jan 28, 2013
Interview Details – I was interviewed for summer intern in a group. The area is related to indoor navigation algorithm design. Two engineers in their group called. I felt good with the first person. He first asked several questions related to my CV, then asked two technical questions related to filtering algorithms. I failed the second one, because it was hard for me to understand his accent......and I didn't be able to answer one question.
Interview Question – A question related to incorporating a map in Kalman filtering Answer Question
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Intern at Qualcomm
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Jan 19, 2013
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Campus job fair in October -> on campus interview -> technical interview
EIP program is for frosh and soph, no programming questions, only brainteasers asked.
Interview Question – red/ black hats riddle Answer Question
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Intern at Qualcomm
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Jan 22, 2013
Interview Details – Two phone interviews
Interview Question – Mostly about C/C++ programming, some puzzles Answer Question
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Intern at Qualcomm
No Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA Apr 2010 – Reviewed Oct 4, 2012
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I had an interview with 6 different person on the same day... (45 min each) So get ready for 5-6 hours of interview...
The interview process started with a person from HR. Introduced me the company and the interview program and the details like procedure for hiring. Than the real interview started with 5 engineers one by one.
They questioned my programming skills asked for simple programs in C/C++. Asked every detail on my CV.
They even asked me to explain every project I did during my education life. Be prepared to present your work in the interview.
They also asked questions from areas that you are not familiar and wanted to come up with an idea or solution to the problem. Be open minded and take your time to think...
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Intern at Qualcomm
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA Apr 2012 – Reviewed Apr 16, 2012
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I got referral by a friend. First phone interview was one week after my resume was passed on. First interviewer is my advisor-to-be, asked me to introduce myself first, and then started to ask technical questions. Took 30-40 min. Told me to get ready for the second internview, which was 2 days later.
Second phone interview took 30 min. All technical questions.
3 days later, received offer from HR.
Interview Question – Introduce yourself, and tell me what is your biggest point? Answer Question
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Intern at Qualcomm
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA Oct 2010 – Reviewed Oct 5, 2011
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I got to interview with Qualcomm when they were at my campus. The process consisted of just a single 1:1 interview with an engineer. The interview lasted about 45 minutes and consisted of both behavioral and technical questions. The engineer was very friendly and fun to talk to.
The technical questions consisted of very basic c++ concepts like oops and abstraction. This was probably one of the easy interviews I have had. Brush up on your basics with c++ and you should be fine.
It took about 2-3 weeks before the HR called and made the offer. In general, I found the people at Qualcomm to be very understanding and nice during the whole process.
Interview Question – Write a function to implement Fibonacci sequence. View Answer
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