The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Jun 2025
Interview
Three Teams screens & a final on-site multi-person interview. For such a large company, the interview process moved very timely. There was a four week interim between application submission and first contact. The entire start to finish evolution was three (!) months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was repeatedly asked how I handled changing priorities, high-pressure situations, difficult conversations and was I OK with 10-11 hour work days, early morning/ early evening phone calls and working on weekends.
Good , deep technical questions, continuous rounds . All rounds at a time , no feedback given. Not selected All rounds at a time , no feedback given. Not selected All rounds at a time , no feedback given. Not selected
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hyderabad) in Apr 2025
Interview
There were 3 rounds .
First round - Tell me about yourself and some questions regarding my current role and past projects. Then fundamental of OS and C like deadlocks, IPC mechanism, threads, shared memory, structured padding, malloc vs calloc, wild pointer, segmentation, paging vs swapping, friend class etc.
Then interviewer asked to wait for 5 mins in the call for the next round
Second round - Again introduction then asked few OS basic and then asked to write code for synchronization of 2 threads in C
After this last round happened which was taken by manager: He asked about past experiences and explained in brief about the role for which they are hiring. He asked if you have thought or done any innovative project.
Even though my technical went very well, I think the manager was not very happy with my answers so I didn't get offer :)
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