I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Oct 2011
Interview
Interviews with HR and five technology team leads. Questions on experience and skills. Algorithm development questions. Best practices, development infrastructure, and tool chain. Questions on team roles, team leadership. Future career goals. Development interests and career progression. One of five interviews was lunch interview and somewhat low key. A lot of traveling from building to building on the interview day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
C language algorithm question. Fibonacci numbers.
Reverse bytes in a string.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Jun 2011
Interview
First we got a phone interview. After phone interview passed, you're invited to move to campus for interview. Campus interview happens over the day, and got interview by 10 people. Sometimes, two people are interviewing you at the same time. They are asking specific questions about protocols, experience, coding and your problem solving skills.
Protocol questions are mostly focus on 3GPP standard as CDMA is Qualcomm specific. Problem solving question can be hard but you're not expected to completely answer it. There's no right or wrong.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
embedded software
real time operating system
problem solving
C/C++ coding
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Feb 2013
Interview
long full day interview. was moderately tough. first telephony then face to face. one on one with 6 different people.one was just analyzing the personality i think. all were nice cordial people. like the whole process, Hr interaction etc. took few weeks to get the result. and then few more weeks to negotiate and get the offer done.