Reached me via email after applied on website. Took one week to make the phone interview arrangement. I was interviewed by a lady, she asked me several questions about the projects I did in internship and in lab. I was expecting some basic questions so that I didn't prepare too much about the projects, however she was asking a lot of details and none of them is related to any basic knowledge points or concepts. I answered most of the questions but got stuck on a few as well. The interview lasted for 1 hr. I thought I could get an on site but it turned out not. Official inform arrived through email after one week of the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some questions about the architecture of receiver system, like why nowadays passive mixer is preferred than active one.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Nov 2012
Interview
Phone interview with one senior engineer and the hiring manager:
Senior engineer asked me the following questions:
1. How does the drain current of NMOS transistor vary with temperature change?
2. How does the gain of CS-Amplifer change with the temperature variation?
3. Basic design procedure of power amplifer?
4. Phase noise definition.
5. What cause phase noise of oscillator and PLL?
Hiring manager:
1. Cutoff frequency definition, how to calculate it of CMOS transistor, how to increase and decrease it?
2. Relationship between transconductance and width of transistor/
3. Input impedance value of CS-Amplifer with source degenerated resistor, inductor or capacitor?
4. Operational Transconductance Amplifer: How does the gain change with drain current change?
Some questions on my resume.