I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Jose, CA) in Aug 2011
Interview
The phone interview was pretty detailed. Lots of detailed questions about C and networking.... enough detail that I had to write down diagrams on paper to make sense of the questions. The in-person interviews consisted of C coding, describing the projects I have worked on, networking questions, cpu architecture, board bringup, behavioral questions -- it was pretty thorough. If you understanding of networking (L2/L3) is solid and you are a strong C programmer you'll do fine. But given my experience at QCA -- I'd say beware. Make absolutely sure you will be working on development (and not just bug fixing).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write the code (in C) to insert an element into a linked list.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Apr 2012
Interview
I got referral by a friend. First phone interview was one week after my resume was passed on. First interviewer is my advisor-to-be, asked me to introduce myself first, and then started to ask technical questions. Took 30-40 min. Told me to get ready for the second internview, which was 2 days later.
Second phone interview took 30 min. All technical questions.
3 days later, received offer from HR.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Introduce yourself, and tell me what is your biggest point?