I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Pilani) in Aug 2016
Interview
There was a written test on aptitude, C and Data Structures and basic electronics.
the questions were easy but it was a speed test with approximately 20 questions in each.
The interview consisted of 3 rounds 2 technical and 1 HR.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In both the technical rounds they asked about the projects, concepts about timing analysis, power dissipiation, a little bit of verilog coding and puzzles.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Nuova Delhi)
Interview
Round 1 was an online test consisting of aptitude, c and c++ and technical . Techinical sec had a choice to choose electronics or computer science. Negative marking was there. Individual time is alloted to each section. 20 questions of apti and duration 20 min. 20 questions of programming and duration is 25 min. And 20 questions of technical and duration 30 min. Total test duration is 75 min. Each correct answer carried +1 and wrong carried -0.25. Out of 60 students, 32 were selected. Then there are two rounds of technical interview having questions on projects, technology, subjects of curriculum. In each round selection rate was 50%. Lastly 7 students got selected.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2012
Interview
I was interning in the summer. Had 6 interviews on my last day. They try to hit all areas of ASIC design flow. Data structures and basic algorithms nothing too complicated.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Draw a FSM for a particular recognizing a particular sequence.
2. Computer Architecture - Caches, Coherency protocols (moesi mosi etc). Pipelining pro and cons.
3. Basic C questions - memcpy,linked list etc.
4. Timing violations and how to fix them.