I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Oct 2018
Interview
First Phone Screen and then on-site at San Diego Offices.
Phone screen - Asked like 30 questions about concepts, memory, compiler, linker etc. Find errors in code. Pointer values in code.
San Diego Onsite - 5 Rounds (4 technical + 1 HR)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Testing methodology, unit testing, programming concepts, memory overflow, stack/heap/text Qs, linked lists, circular buffer, find problems in code, LTE/Wireless/MIMO/Beam forming/MAC etc.
Was the telephonic round. Interviewer mostly focused on the resume and the basic questions related to embedded systems. Was a one hour interview call. The interviewer was a friendly guy and always interactive
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Basic introduction
2. Asked about the projects on the resume
3. Asked various basic questions related to embedded systems including interrupts, pointers, threads etc.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Nov 2014
Interview
Got a mail to schedule the interview. After 4 days, I interviewed on phone and started with going through my CV. Asked a lot of LTE protocol, RF chain(Mixer, LNA, PLL) related questions and some multithreading questions. I could not answer a few. Specific topics like design of PLL, LNA, mutex, semaphores and basic C questions.
