I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Qualcomm
Interview
21-2-25, 2 rounds are conducted virtually, one after other. Hacker rank coding platform is used to test skills in live. Interview revolved around SQL, DSA. Software engineer Software engineer Software engineer Software engineer Software engineer Software engineer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st round-
1-SQL- There is a student table with student id and other params, get alternative ids as output.
2- SQL- There is a Orders table, which has customer_id, order_id and etc. get customer_id who placed maximum orders, if its equal get lexiographically smallest customer_id
3- https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-add-to-make-parentheses-valid/description/ - same but bracket ‘(’ can be added to ‘)’ to make valid, not vice versa, if not possible return -1
4- Longest common subsequence problem
5- Didnt asked to code for this question, just the logic- https://leetcode.com/problems/course-schedule/description/
2nd round:
1-Sql indexes and types of indexes, stored procedures, disadvantage of having too many non clustered index.
2-If a table has many unnecessary columns, which is not used for retrieval(like for indexing), but should present in db, how will u change the format.
3-Gave a scenario of data, asked to design tables and relations. Student has multiple phone numbers, and can take multiple subjects
4-Asked to get phone numbers of the student, who took subject as Maths.
5-Asked to create classes and its object for scenario, Directory, each directory has folders, and each folders has files. A folder obj is passed to a function print all the files and subsequent files.
I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Farnborough, London, England) in Jun 2026
Interview
Three weeks after applying, I was invited to a 30-minute screening interview for this Friday. However, only 20 minutes before the scheduled start time, they requested to reschedule to Monday. Given that I had already rearranged my day to accommodate the original meeting, I chose to withdraw my application out of respect for my own time.
I approach interviews spontaneously, focusing on genuine technical discussions rather than memorized answers. I share real experiences from my embedded software projects, discussing complex issues with sensor integration very naturally.
It will be 3 round interview process with 2 round technical and 3 will be managerial round .
In Technical round it would be DSA : LinkList, Bit manupulation mostly
They would ask regarding oops concept .They will also ask regarding question mentioned in resume . It would be interactive .
In managerial round you could be asked about work related stuf and salary expectation
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