Hardware applicants have rated the interview process at Qualcomm with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Hardware roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 10 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Qualcomm overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Qualcomm as a Hardware according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 57%
One on one interview: 14%
Presentation: 14%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Group panel interview: 7%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Jan 2017
Interview
The process took 3+ months, applied through school career fair. I had 1.5 hour phone interview with two people. Interview questions required intuition about the hardware and circuits. Very few questions about my background and research experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is DIBL. What happens to this logic when sizing of pull down is different.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Austin, TX) in Mar 2021
Interview
I applied through workday portal on October. Received call in Feb for an interview. I had complete two rounds of interview. One with manager and one with director of the team.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Basic question related to Electromigration, Antenna effects, UPF and explain whole physical design flow and every step and what files required for floorplannig, placement and routing.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Feb 2020
Interview
Had applied for Summer 2020 Hardware Intern position. Was called to interview for Bluetooth validation team.
Was emailed to schedule a video interview. We agreed on interview a week later. There was a panel of 3 men for the video interview.
During the video interview, I was just given two small problems to solve. One was a bit-manipulation problem and other was to fill-up a Bluetooth protocol message sequence diagram (tey explained protocol before asking me to solve).
As the interview started with some audio/video glitches, they didn't ask any further technical questions. Then they explained me what the position is about and that it involves mainly hardware integration and validation tests requiring using test equipment and scripting.
The level of questions very simple and which I believe I did answer correctly. However, they still decided to not give an offer which was bizarre.
I submitted resume on campus career fair and then online. After about 3 weeks I took 2 interviews from different teams. Questions are closely related to the job I applied to. After about 4 weeks comes the result.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some verilog, C++ syntax problems. What do you know about Qualcomm