I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Apr 2013
Interview
After applying online I was contacted for one phone interview. The result of which determines whether you would be flown to the campus for on site interviews. There were total 4 interviews in the same day on site.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical question from your resume. I had to explain everything I did. How? Why? What was the impact?
three rounds of interview
1. dsa two qns from hacker rank (1 easy and 1 medium) and projects
2. dsa 1 qn (medium) and a api read and manipulate qns from hacker rank
i got rejected in 2nd round
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Cork)
Interview
HR & Technical, pretty standard. There was a few coding questions, and the interviewer was helpful and they were trying to help clarify the questions. HR was helpful and made a lot of customizations for me
2 rounds with both technical and focusing on computer architecture and performance. risc related questions and how to improve the performance on superscalar computers. the interviewer did not expect full answer but expected to know the basics about superscalar
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
superscalar architecture and risc architecture. how to improve performance