The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in May 2010
Interview
Hiring Process has three telephonic interview.It's usually taken managers and senior design engineers in the team. No 1:1 interview for intern positions. The interview was not grilling.
Basic digital design questions
(1) Set Up and Hold Time Violations and how to fix those violations.
(2) Delays in ICs
(3) About the overall deign flow of IC
(4) Some Concepts of Low Power Implementation
(6) About a sequence detector / state machines
(7) How to size transistors in actual IC design involving many transistors (not the logical effort in text book)
(8) Design of Flip Flop.
Asked about my projects in my resume.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How will you size the transistors ( in real world which involves many transistors ) ? Not the logical effort sizing in text books.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Boulder, CO) in Apr 2012
Interview
Applied on their career website. 1 week later I got an email from HR to set up an technical interview. The interview took 1 hour and covered pure technical questions. The interviewer is the lead of the group, and he was very nice and professional.
I tried my best but didn't pass. 3 days later I got email saying that they picked another candidate.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
RTOS. process vs. threads. How to handle thread conflicts.