I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Feb 2014
Interview
Had 3 technical 35-45 mins phone interviews for Software Engineering Position at QCT.
1st Interview :
Asked everything mentioned on the resume. About each and every word. So I walked him through my resume answering all his questions.
Technical Questions asked :
1) Difference between Array and Linked List ?
2) If i have a phone book to implement, which of the two would you use ? and Why ?
3) In layman's term, explain CDMA and GSM and their differences.
4) What is buffer overflow ?
5) Asked everything about the projects that I had mentioned.
Later I was asked behavioral questions.
2nd Interview :
Technical Questions asked :
1) Explain final, static keywords.
2) Outputs of exception handling situations. Eg. Will Finally block be executed if catch block is not written ? When will system exit ? etc
3) What is StringBuffer and StringBuilder ?
4) What is singleton class ?
5) Does Multiple inheritance exist in both, C++ and Java?
6) Difference between C and Java.
7) Difference between Array and LinkedList
8) Asked a few questions on projects.
3rd Interview :
Technical Questions asked :
1) Difference between C and Java.
2) Explain Method Overloading
3) Explain CDMA and LTE
Questions to test logical reasoning :
1) How many Gas stations are there in the whole of USA ? ( Please do not come up with any arbitrary number. They do not want that ! )
2) How would you test for Salt Cellar ? What all parameters would you consider for testing ?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) How many Gas stations are there in the whole of USA ? ( Please do not come up with any arbitrary number. They do not want that ! )
2) How would you test for Salt Cellar ? What all parameters would you consider for testing ?
I applied through university. I interviewed at Qualcomm (New Delhi) in May 2026
Interview
There was one group discussion round and one interview round initially, but the final selected candidates had to go through two interview rounds. The interviews were of medium difficulty, while the group discussion round was relatively easy overall.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
GD was on whether AI is helpful or harmful for the learning process
Interview started with LC1155, Frog Jump and questions based on resume + genai
Not bad, easy and medium leetcode questions. Answered correctly but didn't get moved forward still. Behavioral questions about resume as well. Two total interviews both had technical and behavioral sections
I applied through university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Allahabad) in May 2025
Interview
The role was for Electronics Engineer Core. The questions were basic but very conceptual and required very clear understanding about subjects like digital electronics and EMI. There were also questions about basic working of MOSFETs and other FETs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked to make a NAND gate using n-type MOSFETs, there were other questions related to JK Flip flops from digital electronics.
