I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Jose, CA) in Aug 2012
Interview
They directly brought me on site. On site interview included 3-5 technical rounds. The team was smart and asked challenging questions. Ensure you prepare low level embedded C, questions on embedded software and threading/synchronization concepts.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
How would you obtain the offset of a member in a struct without declaring a variable of that struct type.
Write a function to move data from one buffer to another given the # of bytes to move and the addresses of source and destination buffer. Now how would you convert this into a library function and ensure atomicity of an ongoing transfer
It was a 5-step interview. Four of them were technical and the last one was with HR. The first two interviews were conducted with the Ireland team. The interviewers were great guys. They checked my basic C language and software design knowledge in those interviews. The last two interviews were conducted with US-based engineering managers. They asked both behavioral and technical questions, as well as a coding question in the last part of the interview. I suggest doing some practice on LeetCode before taking the interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a task scheduler on the bare metal environment.
It is first round with HM. HM digging deep on my resume bullets. HM mainly asked behavioral questions for each bullets. Overall experience is great. We had great conversations. one pseudo coding on parallel programming.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Noida) in Dec 2025
Interview
They gave no idea about overall process. Just calling to scheduling rounds. No alignment discussions. Just kept on taking technical rounds without sharing any details of role. And post all rounds gave an offer way below my current compensation. Overall wasted my time & I would recommended anyone in my network to go with them.
4 technical rounds were there. Mostly general - DSA, sorting & searching algos, some hard leetcode, system design & resume deep dive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sorting & searching algos, Hard leetcode, resume deep dive
