I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Jun 2011
Interview
First we got a phone interview. After phone interview passed, you're invited to move to campus for interview. Campus interview happens over the day, and got interview by 10 people. Sometimes, two people are interviewing you at the same time. They are asking specific questions about protocols, experience, coding and your problem solving skills.
Protocol questions are mostly focus on 3GPP standard as CDMA is Qualcomm specific. Problem solving question can be hard but you're not expected to completely answer it. There's no right or wrong.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
embedded software
real time operating system
problem solving
C/C++ coding
Interviewer joined late. He kept checking if he can find some one else also to talk to me, His questions were very simple basic ones and I answered them pretty well. I followed up HR, HR is coming back to me and it has been 4+ months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
C Structure members how to access and conditions to be met for making the code into ROM
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm in May 2025
Interview
3 technical rounds first one was to implement BST from scratch but in multiple stages. like those in codesignals without any autocomplete. 2nd round was also related to BST where you need to find rightmost left node. i dont remember third one.
The interviewing was quite smooth but the interview process, where we try to reach out to the HR for future communications was a hassle. I had to reach out for at least 2 weeks before I was presented with the next steps, and apparently the interviewing progress was also not updated. Apart from that I enjoyed meeting the team and discussing mutual goals.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a problem (let's say developing and deploying of ML model), how would you approach to deploying on edge device (like a smartphone)?