I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Jun 2011
Interview
Applied for this position online. Received on-site interview within a week without phone screening. I was invited to directly approach the interviewers without going through the HR building. The interview schedule included six engineers and lasted for almost a day. The interviewers were knowledgeable about their material. The interviews were mostly technical with short inquiries on work-habits. The interview questions ranged from telecommunication theory, system-level protocol specifications, hardware block-diagram design, and software programming skills. All the questions were fundamental to the job. If you studied the basic theory from textbook, then passing the interview shouldn't be a problem.
The building was large and it was partitioned into individual small offices. The engineers were patient and rather proud of their work. The working hours were long and it looked like some engineers might be sleeping in their office just to save time. This is probably one reason why this company is so productive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which part of the power-control software did you work on?
The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Apr 2011
Interview
Submited my resume on their website. Got their email in the 3rd day to set up an phone interview. Then got their invatation to on-site interview on the 3rd day after the phone interview. VP meet me imediately after the on-site interview and got their offer the next morning. Everything finished in 10 days. Very impressed with their efficiency.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Software pipelining.
Vectorizaion optimizations.
Many many other compiler algorithms.
How to debug segmentaion fault.
8 algorithms to implement detecting a duplicated number in an array of 1000.