I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Dec 2020
Interview
Applied online through Workday and had two phone screens, each on a different day. Each call was about 45 minutes and questions were mainly to get to know me as a candidate and see what team I would be a good match for, but there were a few technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a routine to count the number of set bits in an integer
Back to back rounds of interview with two staff engineers. Both technical, involving a mix of behavior and technical challenges that involves system design and basic C coding. The coding problems are leetcode easy level of difficulty.
Attended student accelerator program. Had in person interviews on a whiteboard with an engineer. Questions were leetcode style questions and general questions about C++ and python. Overall very good experience, interviewer was nice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were leetcode style questions and general questions about C++ and python. Overall very good experience, interviewer was nice.
Two rounds, both technical. First rounds, asked about technical C commands. Second round, resume questions and one coding problem. identify a loop in a singly linked list. Solved with hash-set, asked for another way to have constant space, used Floyd cycle detection algorithm.
