I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Boulder, CO)
Interview
Applied through online. First, it was a technical phone interview. The interviewer was a staff engineer and it took around 1 hr 15 minutes. Then was invited for site interview after 1 week. Site interview was almost half day long. Four different people took separate technical interviews each 50 minutes long. And then there was 15 minutes short HR interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were related to Wireless communications and Programming.
Wireless Communications--- Shannon's rule, SNR, Bandwidth, Throughput, Difference between GSM, CDMA and LTE, Convolution concepts, call flow in LTE, L1-L2 layers, Modulation schemes.
Programming--- C++, Python, bit manipulation, linked list, multiple inheritance, find out missing number in incoming random integers, test case plan, big picture for test cases etc.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Aug 2014
Interview
This interview was for a contractor position. Initially four people interviewed me(including director) for 30 minutes each. After a week of so, one more person interviewed me for another 30 minutes. I got an offer letter after 10 days to join Qualcomm
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself
Asked about thesis
Asked about my university projects
Asked about what kind of test cases would I have to test a mixture.
Asked about test cycle
Difference between MPEG 4, MPEG2
What is face recognition
I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Sep 2012
Interview
Phone screening followed by Interviews that stretch the entire day. You are provided with details of people who will interview when you arrive for the interview. Usually interviews take place one after the other.