I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Dec 2012
Interview
Intitial review interview, and then a telephonoic technical interview.
After that I was flown to SanDiego for 8 1 hour interviews in one day which was exhaustive, and it wasnt really nice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was interviewed on Embedded systems for an hour inspite of not having that background.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Oct 2013
Interview
One phone interview:
what is qpsk/ offset qpsk?
what are channel coding and source coding?
Two signals transmitting form same antenna at same power, which will have better range.. 1800 or 1900?
What is rf wave propogation, free question, explain whatever you know!
what is OFDMA? how it is different from CDMA?
Communication circuit block diagram, source to antenna..
one round of phone interview followed by 5 rounds of onsite interview.
Phone interview was basic digital comm questions. In onsite interview, 1st round was about my work ex, second round was on resume and random processes, third and fourth interview was on digital comm completley, fifth was gen talk - not much questions asked
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
in 2nd interview, most questions were on random processes which i did not expect.