I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Gainesville, FL) in May 2017
Interview
I had one hour phone interview that included some basic questions about process and threads, synchronization primitives. I was asked about Storage classes in C. What does volatile do and what is its practical applications. Some questions related to Scheduling. Overall it was average.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write a C Program to reverse the words in a sentence
Write a C program to encode bits in a 32-bit number such that, most significant 16 bits should be reversed but lower 16 bits should be untouched. Then asked to generalize this to any number of bits.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualcomm
Interview
First they introduce the company and the team then they ask me to introduce myself, and finally they asked me a few technical questions, and that's about it.
it lasted about ninety mins.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Boulder, CO) in Feb 2017
Interview
Interview consisted of an hour long initial phone screen and then a "round robin" interview with many other candidates. Interviews were both almost completely technical. They didn't seem interested in getting to know the candidates, only how they could perform under pressure and with technical problems.
Phone interview (1 hr) (pure technical)
Q: What is a watchdog timer?
A: Correct
Q: What is atomic programming/non-locking operation?
A: Idk
What is concurrency and multithreading?
A: correct
What is static keyword?
A: correct
What is volatile keyword?
A: correct
Programming problem (live) (reverse a linked list)
A: correct
In person interview (round robin, 4 interviews, 30 min each, whiteboard)
I1: Add a new node to a linked list
A: Mostly correct
I2: Embedded systems questions, low level programming question using "malloc"
A: Incorrect, did not perform well
I3: Function that takes a 2d array of a "sudoku board", and checks to make sure it is a possible board.
A: Mostly correct
I4: Reverse string function, reverse words function, binary tree questions
A: Correct
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