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Embedded Software Engineer at Qualcomm

No Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA (US) Mar 2013 – Reviewed May 24, 2013 New

Interview Details Applied online and contacted through email. The recruiter asked me for my available dates and time and the phone interview was setup accordingly. The interviewer was pretty straight forward. It was based on resume. Simple questions based on the projects mentioned in the resume. One question I remember was difference between regular OS and real-time OS

Interview Question – Simple and straight forward questions. nothing too difficult.   Answer Question

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IT Manager at Qualcomm

No Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA (US) Apr 2013 – Reviewed May 23, 2013 New

Interview Details I initially had a group phone interview that lasted about 10 minutes until I was passed on to next stage. At my in-person interview, I first met with an HR person and went over some basic info. I then met with a panel of four supervisors. Lots of questions about my resume, but the interview felt unstructured and ad-hoc with lots of silences. One of the interviewers seemed like he was upset - he barely made eye contact with me. Odd experience.

Once the interview concluded, one of the managers walked me out and said that I would be brought back in for another panel interview, but I never heard from them again. Surprisingly unprofessional from a company this large.

Interview Question – Asked about UNIX experience from 15 years ago.   Answer Question

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Embedded Software Engineer at Qualcomm

No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2013 – Reviewed May 21, 2013 New

Interview Details Phone Interview : Pretty much standard questions about static keyword, Linked Lists and then finally the interviewer showed me few pieces of code on google docs and asked to find problems in them if any like Memory leaks. Segfaults etc. Later, I found out that the questions were picked up from some website word-to-word. I gave answers to almost all the questions but failed to notice problems well in the last two pieces of code. It's ridiculous, that it was the basis of rejection.

Also, the interviewer kept boasting about how he has worked in almost all the areas that I can possibly name. I am not saying mine was a stellar performance, but overall negative attitude by interviewer and Negative interview.

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Software Engineer at Qualcomm

No Offer – Interviewed in Boulder, CO (US) – Reviewed May 21, 2013 New

Interview Details Applied online. Some questions asked:
Write code to:
1. convert from big endian to small endian.
2. convert decimal to binary.
3. Return the n element from end of a linked list.
4. Count the occurrence of every word

Interview Question – what is the significance of '20 log x'?   Answer Question

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Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA (US) Apr 2011 – Reviewed May 21, 2013 New

Interview Details Appied online. Met 5 interviewers. Kind. Got offer and completed whole process in 3 weeks.

Interview Question – nothing. general ones.   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – not so much. a little bit trimming

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CMOS PA Design at Qualcomm

No Offer – Interviewed in Feb 2012 – Reviewed May 20, 2013 New

Interview Details Applied online but they contacted me after they received my resume as a referral from a friend who works there.
I had two phone interviews and then after a week I got an email saying that I couldn't get a job offer.

Interview Question – Calculating efficiency of a complicated PA.
Detailed questions about my papers. Q factor, current mirror, inductor and transformer design.
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Security Engineer at Qualcomm

No Offer – Reviewed May 20, 2013 New

Interview Details 1. Had a phone screen where I was asked general system vulnerabilities, Buffer Overflow, Heap overflow. Also asked questions on my resume.
Gave a code, and told me to find the vulnerability in the code.

2. Was called onsite, where had 5 interviews. Again, was asked similar vulnerabilities questions. Each interviewer had a set of code where i had to find vulnerabilities.

Important to know about integer overflows, TCP/IP network vulnerabilities, buffer and heap overflows, format vulnerability, return to libc attack, overwtiting the frame pointer and security impact of that.

Interview Question – Frame pointer overwriting was unexpected.   Answer Question

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Digital Design Intern at Qualcomm

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Georgia Institute of Technology Branch Post Office, GA (US) Nov 2012 – Reviewed May 19, 2013 New

Interview Details Campus interview.
Two Technical interviews 45 mins each

Interview Question – State machines,Timing and Critical path   Answer Question

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Associate Engineer at Qualcomm

Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 16, 2013 New

Interview Details It has four rounds of interview. To begin with we had a written test and then a technical interview. Followed by a Hr interview. After the internship we also had a exit hr interview.

Interview Question – They asked my how I would debug a certain code as well as how many types of testing are totally present in this kind of a job.   Answer Question

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ASIC Design Engineer at Qualcomm

No Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA (US) Apr 2012 – Reviewed May 15, 2013 New

Interview Details it's a long interview from 9:30 am to 4:50 pm.there are 6 interviewers.the first one just ask for you information. the other 5 interviewers asked technique question. they were asking me questions even when I was having lunch. It's a long day. So be prepared. Sleep well the night before.

Interview Question – what 's the steps of synthesis?   Answer Question

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