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.
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)?
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Qualcomm
Interview
Applied online through their website. Was contacted after more than 1 month (reasonable for a company this big).
1) First phone interview with a senior engineer. Everything went smooth, we had a good chat about the position and the roles.
2) Second phone interview with another engineer from a different team. Again everything went smooth.
3) On-site interview. Met the team in Europe and had a nice chat with them. Everyone was friendly.
The overall process was very smooth and very well handed by HR. Overall a very pleasing job interview experience.
All questions were deeply technical and related to my position, no whiteboard coding, quizz, complex (and mostly useless) algorithm questions or other useless stuff like this. I always appreciate a job interview where they try to actively assess your skills, and not how much you remember from your university degree. I hope more and more companies follow this. Thanks Qualcomm.
Received a very good offer, but I did not accept because I had another one which was more on track with my aspirations as an engineer vs researcher.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Cannot disclose questions. Just know your stuff about engineering and security.
