I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Jan 2013
Interview
Received email from HR looking for two 30-45 minute periods, had some difficulty finding an appropriate time, eventually interviewed with senior engineer and manager.
Senior engineer asked very easy basic questions, such as linkedlist/arrays, encapsulation, object-oriented programming, etc; manager asked very difficult questions, IE. parallel computing. I was honest with what I knew and didn't know. After a week, I got the offer.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hyderâbâd) in Oct 2023
Interview
Mostly it was related to projects related to resume and some basic question on Architecture. Coming to hardware topics I have written Y-86 64 architecture and projects related to verilog etc. So they mainly focused on them
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most of the questions are related to resume.
Some questions related to digital architecture like pipelining, sequential design. Some related to STA and finite state machines
I got an email to choose from a number of time slots. I selected one and had an interview. The interviewer wasn't very friendly and went straight to technical questions without any icebreaking.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions were basic stuff from diverse topics. However, some of them were from tables/charts from the text (you need to memorize, or else impossible to say the exact values).
First round - MCQ coding questions, math questions
Second round - Questions on project mentioned in my resume, basic questions on coding, image processing, "Tell me about yourself" question
Third round - HR formality to say that you are selected, answer any questions I had.