I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Santa Clara, CA) in Dec 2012
Interview
I had a phone interview. The interviewer was nice and tried to help my answers. The questions were basic and not so difficult to answer as listed below:
1. Explain about your most recent work.
2. How would you estimate the time of arrival of a waveform.
3. Explain about coherent bandwidth
and some more questions I do not remember now. Although my application was rejected immediately due to my poor answers, the interviewer gave me a lot of encouraging comments.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you estimate the time of arrival of a waveform.
A desirable answer might be to say "apply correlator".
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Nov 2025
Interview
round 1 - OA (campus)
round 2 - interview (which itself consisted of 2 tech rounds and 1 hr round)
Interview process was good, interviewers from company were too good
Technical questions on computer architecture based on core subjects like operating systems, computer networks they grilled specially on practical use cases and how data flow end to end.they asked about concept of pipeline and a bit about knowledge of microcontroller
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Computer architecture
Computer networks
Data structure based on linked list and tree
Qualcomm had come to my University for two roles – Hardware and Software. I applied for Hardware Role. There was one round of online tests and 2 interview rounds.
Round 1 (Online Test): It consisted of 3 sections with 20 questions in each section and 30 mins per section. You can travel through the questions in a particular section. The marking scheme was +1 for the correct answer and -0.25 for the wrong answer. Approximately 1500 people gave the test for both software and hardware role.
