Senior RTL Design Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Qualcomm with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Qualcomm as a Senior RTL Design Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Jan 2026
Interview
1) Applied Mid-October. 2) Had a technical screen beginning of December. 3) Scheduled for a panel with 7 people beginning of January. 4) Ghosted for nearly 2 months but the website now says "No longer considered"
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical STAR behavioral questions. Experience with writing your own testbenches accounting for skew and other features that I never worked. CDC and FIFOs (I never worked with these so that caught me off guard). Resume Deepdive and experience with ASIC Flow.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Bengaluru) in Oct 2023
Interview
3 technical rounds back to back. 1 hour each, followed by HR Round.
Got the result next day. It was fast and efficient. Might feel a little too much for a single day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Fixed priority arbiter, Arbiters(4 clients 2 with fixed priority and 2 with round robin), FSM(sequence detector, Lift Controller), How to change reset value of register during an ECO