I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Qualcomm
Interview
The internship was the 3-month interview process. At the end of it, there is a presentation for your solutions to the problems posed. You are given freedom to arrive at the solution yourself and you are assigned a mentor.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Fundamental questions from Operating Systems, digital design, memory design, and programming. Nothing fancy if you have a Ph.D. in CE. Otherwise, atleast do courses in OS and advanced VLSI/SoC design.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2014
Interview
One phone interview with 2 questions. If you got it all right, they fly you to onsite. It's a one whole-day process with 4 to 5 rounds 1-1. Each person gives 3 to 5 questions from puzzles to actual engineering problems. One of the 1-1 is lunch interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have two eggs and a building from first floor to 100th floor. Eggs would break above certain (the same) floor, which is unknown. Use the smallest number of trials to find that floor.
I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Apr 2017
Interview
They contacted me two months after I applied online. The first interview was technical which I easily passed. Then I went onsite to give a talk and for further interviews. I did great in the interview and two weeks later I got an email from the HR that I passed the interview and got a pending offer. We even discussed numbers. The HR then stopped responding to my emails. I finally chatted with hiring manager and it turned out that they had given offer to multiple people. Very unprofessional. Qualcomm is taking its path down to a 3rd tier company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked general math, signal processing, and machine learning questions.