I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (New York, NY) in Jul 2020
Interview
It was first screening round. About 1hr telephonic interview. Agenda was to cross verify the resume. It started with resume discussion and was followed up by design + basic digital questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions
1. Sequence detector for 1001 overlapping sequence (fsm design + verilog code)
2. Basic STA questions on setup and hold time like if in a silicon a path is failing, what would be the first step that you will do to check it is a setup failure.
I had 6 rounds total. The first two were with senior directors who really drilled into my past projects and took time to walk me through the team's work and org structure — they seemed genuinely engaged.
Then I had three rounds with staff engineers. We covered some coding questions I wrote edge detection logic and an FSM, but I made a couple of mistakes on the first pass that I caught and corrected when the interviewers pointed them out. We also talked about DV concepts like reference models and how to build self-checking testbenches.
The final round was with a senior MTS from the Markham office, and it was pure behavioral no technical questions, just asking about my background and team fit.
2 stage interview with first interview to get to know the position and team. 2nd interview was ~1hr long with all technical questions. Write a counter, make a nand gate with muxes, name some cdc/lint violations.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write verilog for a counter, make a nand gate with muxes
Had a phone interview first. Then was called for on site interview. Had 6 interviews. One of them was on software, One was on basic circuits (undergrad level), other were SRAM design.
