I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hyderabad) in Sep 2020
Interview
The HR called for setting up the interview. Two folks joined the interview through Microsoft teams tool. They asked mainly design related questions about how to design various online systems. How to design Search with various facets.
Questions were mainly oriented towards the project that they had at their hand.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. How to design an online selling platform.
2. How to design a search application etc.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Bengaluru) in Jun 2020
Interview
Applied via Naukri and after month HR contacted via email and sent Hackerrank test link. I was given 24 hour to complete the test. It’s multiple choice programming questions stressing towards oops concept.
After two days scheduled video interview on weekend.
Attended 3 rounds of interview with 3 different people.
All rounds had 2 programming questions covering os concepts, data structure, oops concepts and design.
One of the interviewer was unprofessional and stressing towards personal questions and demoralising the candidate which I didn’t expect from American Multinational. Later said that they are not going with my profile. Qualcomm should have better filtering in online test itself so that they don’t waste candidates time.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Noida) in Jul 2019
Interview
The process included 4 technical rounds and 1 HR round.
All technical rounds were long and comprehensive. They asked about everything written in my resume. Every IP I worked on with detailed block diagrams and explanation.