I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Bengaluru) in Aug 2021
Interview
Interviewer was very polite and humble. Every questions were from basic electronics and one question was from coding.
Clarity on basic topics is a must. He asked to construct a d flip flop by connecting extra gates. Finally you have to draw timing diagram after connecting those gates.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Allahabad) in Aug 2022
Interview
it was a short one abt 45 min only . interview i level is good . they basically asked questions in digital, static timing analysis, asic design flow, power analysis, computer architecture, verilog, c programming.
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Vellore) in Sep 2022
Interview
Qualcomm had come to my University for two roles - Hardware and Software. I applied for Hardware Role. There was one round of online test and 2 interview rounds.
The first round - online test - consisted of 3 sections with 20 questions in each section and 30 mins per section. You can travel through the questions in a particular section. The marking scheme was +1 for correct answer and -0.25 for wrong answer.
The second round was a technical interview and it went on for around 50 mins. It was conducted online on Microsoft Teams. The interview covered quite a lot of topics mainly related to CMOS, Digital Electronics and Verilog.
The third round was also a technical interview primarily, except a few discussions about location preferences. This again was conducted online on Microsoft Teams, the same day as the first interview. It lasted for about 35-40 mins.
After the second interview round, there was no further HR round for any of the applicants. The same day, we received the final results of the process and in total 8 people were selected for Internship + Full time offer. Out of these, 4 were for Hardware and 4 were for Software.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round 1 -
• Section 1 – Aptitude and Logical reasoning questions with some basic math.
• Section 2 – C language based coding MCQs including pointers, arrays, and etc. and general number system questions.
• Section 3 – Digital Electronics section with questions from Combinational and Sequential circuits, Boolean algebra, CMOS, BJT, ADC and DAC, etc.
Round 2 -
• A few questions about my resume.
• Draw transfer characteristics of inverter.
• What is the threshold voltage of an inverter?
• What is high and low Noise margin? What does it signify
• Draw CMOS inverter and mark all 4 terminals.
• Draw a physical diagram of an NMOS.
• What happens if the body is not shorted to source? What might happen if it is connected to a higher voltage than source?
• What are state machines?
• Write the Verilog code for a mod-3 counter.
• What are the common mistakes one can make while writing this Verilog code?
• How would you make an AND gate with a 2x1 MUX?
• How would you make an OR gate with an XOR gate?
Round 3 -
• Asked a few general personal questions about me and resume.
• A logical aptitude based question – If you have 2 cubes with 6 surfaces each, how will you any day of a month from 01 to 31 using the 2 cubes by writing any single digit number on each side of both the cube?
• Implement an OR gate using NAND gates.
• Draw an OR gate using a 2x1 MUX.
• What is the equation of an EXOR gate?
• Draw a NAND gate using CMOS logic.
• Explain how it functions.
• What is setup time and hold time?
• What are the different types of Finite state machines? What is the difference?
• Draw the state diagram of a sequence detector to detect - 01*0010*1 - where 1* means that 1 can be repeated any number of times and similarly 0*.
• Verbally explain how you would write a Verilog code for a finite state machine.
• Discussions regarding job location.