I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Jun 2012
Interview
All technical questions for the hour-long phone interview. He started out with basics: C++ keywords such as static, volatile, atomic operations. And then a coding question, where your asked to identify a certain 5-bit pattern given a bit stream.
The onsite interview was 6 hour long, a different interviewer per hour. The structure is very similar to the phone interview, where they start out asking you about your background and some basic knowledge questions, and then hit you with coding problems.
Was able to answer 80% of the questions, and receive interests from 3 different teams, but did not receive an offer for US branches due to VISA problem.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Identify a 5-bit pattern, given a bit stream, accessible by function uint8_t getBits(), which returns 4 bits at a time.
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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