I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Aug 2010
Interview
had multiple 1:1 interview, each interview took about 45 minutes. the first 15-20 minutes were more they wanted to know what I did. Classical few minutes elevator pitch helped to get discussions started. Then came technical questions and why I want to work for them. the last section of each interview was reserved for my questions.
not all interviewer were prepared, some just printed out my resume right when I came in. Their internal print-out is very different what the resume I uploaded in their web site and I realized interviewer having trouble navigating through it.
All in all the more than 10 people which interviewed me treated me respectful. Not the type of technical questioning bombardment till you cannot answer anymore and then telling you that you should know it approach like I have seen with other companies.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2008
Interview
they ask simple and basic college 101 class questions
try to study from your college textbooks before attend interviews
don't get nervous! They were once in your position....
HR manager will ask you what you want from this job...and how much you want to make
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Jun 2010
Interview
it was a long process. received an email from staffing co-ordinator to setup a phone interview. it was very interactive- abt prev exp. of software development, projects with some briefing and related basics - whatever was on my resume. After a month's time,flew to san diego. 1 HR and 5 technical- Managers, leads. HR spoke abt the process n stuff. my first interviewer was late by 20 mins but anyways it was lunch time- was interactive throughout and gave a lot of attention to details of my project work- asked a few scenarios. Then 2 managers- basics of RF, digital comm.- the same questions were asked !! then with the Leads- C/C++ coding questions - bit manipulation, sorting, searching, datastructures; imp. be sure to capture the rare cases/ exceptions-gives a good impression on ur coding ability Overall it was manageable. Just be thorugh with whats on your resume, brush up on fundamentals and good coding skills with OO; keep talking and be assertive. Good luck!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
retrieve 3rd bit of an nth byte in an array of x elements with each size k.