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1). Design Strategy in C++ 2). Semaphore, mutex, spin lock 3). S1/X2 HO call flow 4). Work Experience from Current Company and previous company. 5). C basic questions. 6). Volatile, register 7). State machine questions 8). Most of the interview questions from work experience
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Qualcomm

3.8★
Jun 14, 2015

1). Design Strategy in C++ 2). Semaphore, mutex, spin lock 3). S1/X2 HO call flow 4). Work Experience from Current Company and previous company. 5). C basic questions. 6). Volatile, register 7). State machine questions 8). Most of the interview questions from work experience

first HR person just normal questions. then a SW manager lunch&talk.then a SW engineer asked some general questions about embedded system. they all asked questions about memory debugging. the a senior SW engineer asked C++ questions related to virtual destructor. and a question about loop in the linked list. the last one is the manager asked about the oriority inversion and its fixes.
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Qualcomm

3.8★
Dec 3, 2018

first HR person just normal questions. then a SW manager lunch&talk.then a SW engineer asked some general questions about embedded system. they all asked questions about memory debugging. the a senior SW engineer asked C++ questions related to virtual destructor. and a question about loop in the linked list. the last one is the manager asked about the oriority inversion and its fixes.

The position was not for graphics development and neither is my background, but an interviewer insisted on probing on such algorithms and linear algebra, about which I know about only cursorily and recall only vaguely.
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Qualcomm

3.8★
Jan 12, 2013

The position was not for graphics development and neither is my background, but an interviewer insisted on probing on such algorithms and linear algebra, about which I know about only cursorily and recall only vaguely.

They had Job opening for Mainframe + C++ , but the team was looking for Java and Javascript screwed my entire 3 months of Interview process . Core Java , Collections , COBOL ,DB2 ,CICCS, VSAM . The team is not aware of what they want to hire for and they waste time of candidates neither the HR was co-operative .
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Visa Inc.

3.8★
Jul 1, 2019

They had Job opening for Mainframe + C++ , but the team was looking for Java and Javascript screwed my entire 3 months of Interview process . Core Java , Collections , COBOL ,DB2 ,CICCS, VSAM . The team is not aware of what they want to hire for and they waste time of candidates neither the HR was co-operative .

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