I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2021
Interview
First-round coding interview with the team including a manager or staff engineer. The position was in ML accelerator team. They said this would be the only interview. Took approximately 1 hour and 30 mins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Reverse an array 2. Check if LinkedList has a cycle. 3. How do you print all nodes of a given binary tree using in-order traversal without recursion?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Chicago, IL) in Nov 2025
Interview
I did an online technical assessment. It had two coding questions and 5 multiple choice questions. It had a 75 minute time allocation. It was the first step of the interview process and they gave me 1 week to complete it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It had two coding questions and 5 multiple choice questions.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Feb 2022
Interview
It was completely coding-based, not much related to resume. It was only 1 round. Applied to the San Diego office position, not through university. Operating system based questions were also asked - diff between thread and process, interrupts
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Live coding, questions asked:
Linked list reversal, remove duplicates from array
Print size of datatype without using sizeof operator
Palindrome using linked list
