I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2012
Interview
Got an email from HR and scheduled a phone interview. In the phone interview I was asked some basic programming questions like bit manipulation and some OS questions like dealocks. Then I got an email to schedule an onsite interview. The onsite interview includes 5 interviewers, four of them asked tech questions and the other one is a lunch interview, so only some casual talk about my experience.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Nov 2012
Interview
1 Phone interview for 30 min with hiring manager.
Then 7 technical interviews - 45 min each ( Hiring manager + Director + 4 Engineers) and 1 casual HR interview (not behavioral)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Its an ADC Testing Day - Every interview was like go in to the room , they asked me to go to the board , and started questioning. But it was nice experience , it was question to answer interviews.
1)Draw Frequency Spectrum of output of an ADC , when the ADC is undersampled . Say f(in) = 10 MHz and Fs= 7 MHz.
2)Square wave in frequency domain will have odd or even harmonics ?
3) Every interviewer asked about how to test the static and dymanic parameters of an ADC, like DNL,SNDR, SNR (ideal). , Histogram Techniques , Coherent Sampling , Windowing, Ramp input vs Sine wave input testing
4)Basics on dB,dBm andfind rms power output. Given an input signal.
5)RC filter output wave amp and phase vs freq plots., transfer function of high pass filter
6)Some C programming questions. - String reversal, sorting, find max number, find prime number.
7)Some questions based on resume. ( projects ,very few)
8)Testing a DAC
9)Transmission Line - Impedence matching questions.
Director asked me one question on how would I like to see myself in 5 years from now.