I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (New Delhi) in Jul 2021
Interview
On Campus, 1st Round was general Aptitude and Data interpretation.
2nd Round was Technical Interview.
3rd Round was again Technical Interview but I was out of the process in 1st technical round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Differences between array and link list.
Wild Pointers and Memory Leak.
Searching in a bitonic array.
Output of a recursive function.
3 interview rounds: 2 DSA rounds and one HR round. they will ask you about your projects in your resume and some simple DSA questions as well. 2 DSA rounds and one HR round. they will ask you about your projects in your resume and some simple DSA questions as well
They grill you a lot on your resume and CS fundamentals. Make sure to know every single thing possible. They will keep asking you questions until you don't know the concept anymore.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Different SQL Questions, AI concepts, Debugging etc
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2026
Interview
2 Interview Rounds. Got a link to schedule both interviews. You could schedule it in any order.
1. Engineering Manager
2. Technical Staff
(PS: why is there a minimum limit to this text box)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round 1 - Resume based questions, asked me to explain two of my projects, and had some easy follow up questions, and finally we discussed about the project I will be working on as a intern.
Round 2 (Technical) - very similar to round 1, was asked about one of my experience, and then was asked OS related questions
1. User space vs Kernel Space
2. IPC
3. Virtual Memory
4. Page tables
5. Hypervisor
