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      Physical Design Engineer Interview

      Aug 14, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Bengaluru) in Aug 2020

      Interview

      asked questions on VLSI physical design, questions on cmos inverter, different cells used in physical design, what projects and experience i have in this field, some questions related to digital design

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      how do we do power planning in floorplanning
      1 Answer

      Other Physical Design Engineer Interview Reviews for Qualcomm

      Physical Design Engineer Interview

      Oct 6, 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Qualcomm

      Interview

      4 interviewers. Basics of physical design /cpu architecture/experience based questions/tcl scripting/timing analysis/block closure /techniques/previous wrk exp/ drc analysis related questions/ tool related questions/ example Based questions “how would you solve this?” Kind of questions

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Explain the challenges involved in previous tapeout
      Answer question

      Physical Design Engineer Interview

      Jul 8, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Austin, TX
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Austin, TX) in Sep 2025

      Interview

      One hour and loop with 5 people each round focusing on eache step of physical design flow and cadence tools. I have a thesis on RISC V low voltage pd so they asked about that more

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      EMIR analysis and debugging of STA
      Answer question

      Physical Design Engineer Interview

      Jun 4, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Diego, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA)

      Interview

      Application via Qualcomm careers or referral. Recruiter may reach out for basic screening: Your background, tools used (ICC2, PrimeTime, RedHawk, etc.) Areas of expertise: floorplanning, CTS, routing, STA, DRC, EMIR, etc. Experience with multi-VDD, ECOs, hierarchical designs, colored flows, etc. Technical Phone Interviews (1–2 rounds) Each round typically lasts 45–60 minutes.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Walk me through how you approach floorplanning for a block. How do you handle placement of macros and standard cells around them? What considerations go into designing a power grid? How do you handle multi-VDD domains or level shifters? What are tie-high and tie-low cells and where are they used?
      Answer question
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      Qualcomm interviews FAQs

      • Physical Design Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Qualcomm with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Physical Design Engineer roles take an average of 34 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 Physical Design Engineer according to 14 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  35%

        One on one interview:  19%

        Skills test:  16%

        Other:  10%

        Background check:  6%

        Group panel interview:  6%

        Personality test:  3%

        Presentation:  3%

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