It was on campus hiring. It consists of an online assessment and resume screening, followed by 3 rounds of interviews, out of which 2 were technical and 1 was HR.
Accepted offer
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Bengaluru) in Oct 2024
Interview
It was a good interview covering all aspects of digital electronics and physical design aspects. Also focused on projects that were mentioned in the resume. Overall it was good. Checked the confidence levels.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hsinchu)
Interview
The interview process spanned 4 days with one 1–2 hour session per day. Each round began with a 30-minute discussion on my college projects, followed by deep dives into Computer Architecture (CPU Design, Cache DDesign, etc.). One of the sessions also included a simple whiteboard coding question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Cache Design (calculating cache bits involves breaking down the CPU address into Tag, Index, and Offset field)
2 rounds were conducted first was for resume and basic os questions were asked according to my project 2nd was resume based.third was hr but it was only 10 minutes and a formality
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
write the pipelined code of my mips processor basically fetch and decode