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    Updated Jun 21, 2017
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      Senior Financial Analyst Interview

      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No Offer
      Negative Experience

      Application

      I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Qualcomm.

      Interview

      Well, the whole recruiting was so weird. They came to our school for recruiting on Wednesday and later on Friday they said the position was filled. I understand that company would go to the events they committed to, but this is kind of a waste if time for both of us.

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      Systems Engineer Interview

      Anonymous Employee
      Accepted Offer
      Positive Experience
      Average Interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm.

      Interview

      The phone interview lasted about 50 mins. It started with technical questions right away. The interviewer was patient and nice. I was able to answer 80% of the question.

      Interview Questions

      • slow fading vs fast fading. some random processes questions. OFDM.   Answer Question

    3.  

      Software Developer- Security Group Interview

      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No Offer
      Positive Experience
      Average Interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm in June 2017.

      Interview

      Phone Interview- Technical questions long for 45 min, asked me about basic resume projects which i have done in the past, Basic concepts of programming & Computer architecture. We have also discussed Security aspects of the Network

      Interview Questions

      • Program logic to sort an array where only 0s & 1s are the elements, Asked About My Resume Projects, In Computer Architect concept- Asked about How many clock cycle required to execute certain instructions (Load, Store, Execute & etc), Math word problem based on Concept of Distance, Speed & Time   Answer Question

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      Software Engineer Interview

      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No Offer
      Positive Experience
      Average Interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm.

      Interview

      I applied online and got a mail regarding a phone interview. The interviewer forgot to call me at the scheduled time and I had to reschedule again. During the interview, he asked me about multithreading and C questions. Overall the interview was fine.

      Interview Questions

      • What is the use of static variable?
        What is the use of extern ?           Answer Question

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      Senior Hardware Engineer Interview

      Anonymous Employee
      Accepted Offer
      Positive Experience

      Interview

      two phone screens, each takes less one hour. on-site interview for a day. you will not get the offer if one person say no. it needs a presentation three years ago. Now people are more busy, no presentation any more.

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      Product Engineer Interview

      Anonymous Interview Candidate in San Diego, CA
      No Offer
      Positive Experience
      Difficult Interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in May 2017.

      Interview

      Had a phone interview about 30 minutes. Technical overview: going through resume, understanding product qualification process, tester experience etc. Received an invite for onsite interview later that week. The in person interview was setup for 2 weeks later. Met with 5 different engineers of all levels (sr. to director).

      Interview Questions

      • Got asked:

        - Continuity testing methodology
        - MBIST pattern (how to setup )
        - scan pattern
        - ESD/LU
        - CMOS cross section
        - process corners
        - how to make a design faster or slower ( smaller gate oxide thickness = faster process)
        - PCM data (how many zones and know some parameters)
        - Vout/Vin curve for CMOS/Idsat curve
        - Review Failure Analysis (when to do which method)           Answer Question

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      Embedded Software Engineer Interview

      Anonymous Interview Candidate in Gainesville, FL
      No Offer
      Positive Experience
      Average Interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Gainesville, FL) in May 2017.

      Interview

      I had one hour phone interview that included some basic questions about process and threads, synchronization primitives. I was asked about Storage classes in C. What does volatile do and what is its practical applications. Some questions related to Scheduling. Overall it was average.

      Interview Questions

      • Write a C Program to reverse the words in a sentence   1 Answer
      • Write a C program to encode bits in a 32-bit number such that, most significant 16 bits should be reversed but lower 16 bits should be untouched. Then asked to generalize this to any number of bits.   1 Answer

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      Software Security Engineer Interview

      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No Offer
      Neutral Experience
      Easy Interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm.

      Interview

      I applied online and got a call from the hiring manager in some days about a phone screen for 45 minutes. He scheduled a time and gave me a call. Questions were based on resume and a coding question.

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      Embedded Software Engineer Interview

      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No Offer
      Negative Experience
      Average Interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm.

      Interview

      I applied online and got a mail regarding a phone interview. The interviewer forgot to call me at the scheduled time and I had to reschedule again. During the interview he asked me about multithreading and C questions. Overall the interview was fine.

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      Intern Interview

      Anonymous Employee
      Accepted Offer
      Positive Experience
      Average Interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Qualcomm.

      Interview

      I had an in person interview at my college. It took about an hour at most and was with one employee. I heard back about 3 weeks later.

      Interview Questions

      • I was asked two technical questions. Both were coding and done in two different languages, Java and C.   Answer Question
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