I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hyderābād) in Mar 2025
Interview
HR reached out to me to apply and then had an interview the next day. Total 3 rounds of interview. Had positive review in all rounds but the HR said they are not moving forward with the candidate after 2 months. Very disappointed with the whole process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
3 rounds in total:
1. live coding interview
a. linkedlist problem of using fast and slow pointer to find the middle element
b. In a city, there is a footpath constructed using blocks of different colors.
There can be contiguous blocks of same color as well which makes the footpath beautiful.
A chief guest is going to visit the city and the city department wants to make the most beautiful footpath.
Beauty value of the footpath is the largest number of continuous blocks painted with chief guest's favorite color.
You are given a positive number N(number of blocks in footpath) and number C(number of available colors for blocks).
Each block is currently painted with exactly one of the given colors represented by an array blocks. Chief guest's favorite color is favColor.
Find the beauty value of the footpath.
num_of_blocks=10
total_colors=6
block_color={6, 5, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 2}
favorite_color=2
In this case, the beauty value is 3.
2. About transformers architecture, RAG, LLMs, LLM evaluation
3. General technical stuff and deepdive of projects in your resume