I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Jose, CA) in Aug 2011
Interview
The phone interview was pretty detailed. Lots of detailed questions about C and networking.... enough detail that I had to write down diagrams on paper to make sense of the questions. The in-person interviews consisted of C coding, describing the projects I have worked on, networking questions, cpu architecture, board bringup, behavioral questions -- it was pretty thorough. If you understanding of networking (L2/L3) is solid and you are a strong C programmer you'll do fine. But given my experience at QCA -- I'd say beware. Make absolutely sure you will be working on development (and not just bug fixing).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write the code (in C) to insert an element into a linked list.
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)?