The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Oct 2008
Interview
Phone interview with the hiring manager to discuss experience and role objectives; On site interviews with technical leads, hiring manager, group director. Each interview is ~30 minutes. You need to do a good research on the role and ask a lot of questions during the interviews to show that you are really interested in the job.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Oct 2009
Interview
I had a phone interview with one software engineer, one week later I received an email to bring me onsite. There were totally 8 people to interview me, each one had 40 minutes or so. The questions ranges from language to algorithms to operating systems. Questions were not difficult, but you need to prepare well to answer them.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Oct 2009
Interview
The interviewer was quite rude. He first asked me how I would fit in for this position. Then he asked me if I knew C/C++, asked a few questions too on pointers and references.
He then asked me to write a code (using pointers) to reverse a string using a single array and ping him once done. I used swapping logic with a for() loop. He was happy for the first time!
He then threw some testing questions, how would you test a CD rom etc....He did not encourage me while I was trying to answer...Then all of a sudden he said thank you, any questions.
He seemed as if he was forced at it and completely disinterested in hiring anybody.
Overall the interview was very demoralizing and I took 2 days to get out of it. Phew!