I applied through university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Dec 2009
Interview
Two one hour technical interviews on one day followed by another technical interview a month later. Each interview was conducted by a different department. the questions where specific to each department; audio, hardware, and image processing. A few high level questions about sampling rate and image compression followed by a discussion of previous projects and some programming questions at the end.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What importance does the frequency of an image play in image compression?