I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Apr 2017
Interview
Applied online
Phone round initially with a team member. Courteous and friendly interviewers.
Got called for on site in 1 week
Met with 5 technical team members and 1 HR recruiter for interviews at San Diego campus.
Long day, lots of questions and coding challenges. Did well in coding challenges but they require better in depth answers to conceptual questions
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Bit manipulation questions - detect pattern of ones, write masks to insert pattern of ones in a 32 bit integer
Interview with engineers in the first round. Discuss about experience and job requirements. Talk about the project story in the CV and fluency of coding language. Ask cross functional experience and tech detail in every experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's difficult thing you do in certain projects? How do you handle it? Do you have cross-functional experience? Give an example.
they call you and ask you the your availability and typical interview goes for 3 hours if they are interested. They ask C questions and your project related questions. At last a manager comes and takes your interview.
I had 1 screening round with 4 onsite rounds . All the rounds focuses on basic C concepts and additional concepts specific to role. Prepare behavioural questions related to your past work experience
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Qualcomm interviews FAQs
Embedded Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Qualcomm with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 43% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Embedded Software Engineer roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 93 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Qualcomm overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Qualcomm as a Embedded Software Engineer according to 93 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 45%
One on one interview: 22%
Skills test: 12%
Presentation: 7%
Group panel interview: 6%
Background check: 3%
Personality test: 3%
Drug test: 1%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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