I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in July 2007
Interview
I had interviews with several people for a systems engineering position; some of them technical and some of them to test the people skills; questions ranged from coding ability to knowledge of the network security concepts. ability to understand the challenges of the mobile ecosystem was also tested. the interview spanned over two days with different set of people over the two days.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
describe the challenges in providing applications on a mobile device.
With two other engineers in a call that lasted about an hour. They asked questions about my resume and some technical questions on programming in C and C++, but the questions weren't too difficult and they were very welcoming.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some questions got straight off from leetcode and hackerrank
I applied through university. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Ann Arbor, MI) in Nov 2019
Interview
The interviewer was aggressive and confrontational. He made me doubt what I was saying for each answer, and made me generally uncomfortable for the entire 45 minutes. I did not enjoy it.
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Feb 2019
Interview
Had two telephonic interviews, one with a senior engineer and one with the manager. Each was 30 minutes long. Questions were mainly based on resume and core embedded concepts like communication protocols and basic C concepts.