I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Santa Clara, CA) in Feb 2012
Interview
Questions were asked on bit manipulation like set or clear a bit ,how to change endianness of data, how to detect number of bits set in a byte....
,string manipulation like reverse a string and how would a find first occurrence of a character.... ,asked basic queue functionalities like enqueue and dequeue funcion.and how to insert a node in doubly linked list.....
Also other questions were on resume and projects that I did...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
how would you detect whther the stack is growing towards lower addresses or higher addresses
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Nov 2025
Interview
round 1 - OA (campus)
round 2 - interview (which itself consisted of 2 tech rounds and 1 hr round)
Interview process was good, interviewers from company were too good
Technical questions on computer architecture based on core subjects like operating systems, computer networks they grilled specially on practical use cases and how data flow end to end.they asked about concept of pipeline and a bit about knowledge of microcontroller
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Computer architecture
Computer networks
Data structure based on linked list and tree
Qualcomm had come to my University for two roles – Hardware and Software. I applied for Hardware Role. There was one round of online tests and 2 interview rounds.
Round 1 (Online Test): It consisted of 3 sections with 20 questions in each section and 30 mins per section. You can travel through the questions in a particular section. The marking scheme was +1 for the correct answer and -0.25 for the wrong answer. Approximately 1500 people gave the test for both software and hardware role.
