I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Apr 2010
Interview
I was referred by an employee and got email from the HR to set up the phone interview. After about 45 min I got the on site interview recommendation. During the phone interview I was asked a lot questions about what I was doing and and some theory algorithm associated with them. For example: How to do the channel estimation? How to implement the power control algorithm. all the technique related questions are based on the interviewer's working experience. I don't have on site interview scheduled yet. But my experience is you have to really know what your were doing and make the interviewer believes that you really did the work as you claimed.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2010
Interview
Referred by a friend and received only an on-site interview. Meet with hiring manager for about an hour, then the director who asked quite a few technical questions after which I had lunch with the rest of the team. Awesome experience! Absolutely like working at Qualcomm!!!
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Jan 2010
Interview
Saw opportunity online, sent resume to recruiter, was invited for an interview with the hiring manager a few days later .The manager was technically hands-on. The questions were fair, and could be answered faster by a person who worked on the issues recently. This is a fast pace environment.