Software Engineering applicants have rated the interview process at Qualcomm with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 85% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineering roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 14 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 Software Engineering according to 14 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 37%
Presentation: 16%
Phone interview: 16%
Skills test: 16%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Background check: 5%
Personality test: 5%
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Berkeley, CA) in Mar 2014
Interview
I applied online to Qualcomm some time in February 2014, and heard back a month later.
I hate two interviews that were a mix of technical and behavioral questions.
The technical questions were centered around C++ or Java. The interviewer was flexible and let me answer based on the language that I preferred. There were some general questions about data structure, heap and stack, and other algorithm based questions.
I found the behavioural questions to be fairly detailed. It included experience working with teams, experience with existing code bases. and debugging methods.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you debug a piece of code without access to a debugger or an IDE?
The entire process consisted of reaching out through a recruiter and one phone screen interview with the hiring manager and a past intern (current employee). I heard back within a couple days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what is the difference between pass by value and pass by reference?
Phone Interview coding on paper then picture. He would call and I would write down on a piece of paper how the methods I would solve it. Finally I would take a picture of the program and text it to him.
I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA)
Interview
Two Technical Interviews:
1. Describing resume and technical aspects of projects
2. Emphasis on C/C++, pointers, recursion, basics, they asked me questions based on what I knew from my resume
- whiteboarding coding questions
- gave hints when I got stuck
- questions vary based on your interviewer
- value thought process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a static variable in C? What is a global variable?