I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hyderabad) in Jan 2019
Interview
I applied for WLAN Firmware developer.
To be called for interview I had to clear online coding test.
Practicing hackerrank practice problems are enough for passing the test.
OS and C concepts are mandatory for Interview. For WLAN basics of WiFi maybe needed.
Description of projects in college or in previous industry.
What problems you face and how did you solved them.
Interview questions [23]
Question 1
C code for adding and deleting nodes in a linked list. Modify the same for circular linked list
There is a mod 60 hardware counter. It generates a overflow interrupt. I can access the count value register of the counter. Write a program to show the time in Hour Minute and Seconds to user.
Which one will behave how in which OS, which one crashes faster. Why?
while(1)
int *p = (int*)malloc(10);
while(1){
int *p = (int*)malloc(10);
memset(p, 1, 10);
}
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hyderabad) in Dec 2018
Interview
I got through employee referral. First is coding round. Had questions from beginner level to advanced. After 1 week of giving written, i got mail inviting for 1:1. On site interview took place on 3rd dec for whole day and consisting of 4 round. They covered all the topics in C and i had really great experience, Covered almost everything from post increment pre increment arrays pointers strings sorting DS alogs OS literally everything.
After 1 week i got mail from HR saying interview is positive and send a questionnaire regarding usual stuff HR compensation title notice period and all.
Very bad HR process(Totally a negative outlook). Till date whenever i contact them they says its still in process and its been almost 40 days no offer yet . still waiting
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reference based sorting , swap nibbles, LL reversal, Merge sort, Time complexities etc
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Bengaluru) in Jul 2018
Interview
The process was very good and the interviewers were very polite. The interview questions needed some thinking and they were very simple logical questions if I remember now. Overall this is the best interview I have ever given.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical questions, location preference and some other details