I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Oct 2011
Interview
Post my resume on Qaulcomm portal and get a phone interview immediately. The hiring manage is very kind and nice. The HM and another team member gave me a 2-hour phone interview. Then after two weeks, I went onto the onsite interview. The onsite interview is 1:1 and lasted 6 hours.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Feb 2012
Interview
got an email to schedule a phone interview.
The phone interview was based on C questions:
bit manipulation
detect overflow
static identifier
stack configuration when a function is called
semaphore
and many OS questions : cache coherency, mutex, deadlock, spinlock, Paging
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Feb 2012
Interview
I had 2 phone interview each one about 1 hour. It followed by an on site interview in San Diego.
They allowed my one hour presentation about my PhD work. and I had 1:1 interview with 7 member of a team. They ask technical questions but not related to what you do and each one mostly ask about what they do in the team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
non linearity of the divider in the sigma delta fractional N PLL.