I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Feb 2012
Interview
Basically they asked me what I did for my phd. I basically explained my current research and also some course projects. They also asked me some brain teaser questions. The problem is not that hard. Since the positions I was looking for is about doing computer vision, they also asked me some really basic stuffs about it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Please explain what you are doing for your phd research and talk about details of one of my course project listed in my cv.
I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Amsterdam)
Interview
It took two weeks after I applied to schedule the interview. (Virtual)
The interview took about 60 mins, and I was able to know who the interviewer was before the interview, and it was conducted as a one-on-one meeting.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Fundamental Question about ML/AI. For examples, overfitting, gpu distribution, generative models, transformer architectures.
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Calipatria, CA) in Jan 2026
Interview
pretty smooth, nothing harsh. They are pretty nice about you. But still need to prepare for domain knowledge because they may ask technical problems. Just be prepared and sleep enough.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
resume research background and the paper questions
Technical questions (not too difficult, pretty standard) and then we had an in-depth discussion of previous research projects (the interviewer had read my most recent paper). It lasted approx 45 mins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me general ML questions (eg overfitting, underfitting), how CNNs work, regularisation methods etc. and some stats (0 covariance vs independence). Then we discussed my recent research projects in detail.
