I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Feb 2025
Interview
30 min phone interview.
Questions about previous role and work experience, and discussion about the specified role and expectations.
Asked questions about virtual memory, memory management unit, network protocol stack - TCP vs UDP.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked questions about virtual memory, memory management unit, network protocol stack - TCP vs UDP.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Bengaluru) in Aug 2021
Interview
Campus interview at premium college
2 technical rounds followed by 1 hr round
Questions on vlsi design, analog electronics
Difficulty level: Medium
Covered questions on analog circuits of opamps , basic electronic devices and digital electronics questions
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.