I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hyderabad) in Feb 2026
Interview
The interview process went well overall; however, the interviewer examined topics in significant depth, focusing strongly on core scheduling concepts, underlying principles, and practical approaches to designing, implementing, and optimizing scheduling strategies in real-world scenarios.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
OS questions:
Related semaphores, mutexs, spinlock
DSA question : Print the odd and even numbers using the linked list by pushing them in to it
The interview process was slow. On a couple occasions the person who was supposed to interview me didn't show up. They also kept booking interviews at 2-3am my local time even though I told them what timezone I was in.
Overall I got the feeling they did not care about wasting my time.
I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2026
Interview
One research interview and one technical ML interview (45 minutes each). Overall the process was very smooth and the interviewers were very nice and encouraging. They also got back to me with final decisions very quickly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Discussions about your research and domain knowledge.