I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Dec 2012
Interview
Phone interview mainly on my resume and onsite interview with a team. I was asked full digital communication question which i studied in my under graduate so couldn't answer much.
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Apr 2012
Interview
After the my technical Phone interview which took almost a month i received an invitation for the on-site interview at San Diego, CA, followed by interview dates available & choice followed by confirmation and procedure for purchasing the airline tickets & hotel reservation. Received Interviewers names 2 days ahead on the scheduled date. I had 7 professionals interviewed me starting with HR and remaining from different departments (Technologies) of modem testing. Received interview schedule & locations of the interviewers from HR. The interview lasted for 7 hrs each 45 minutes & remaining transport (Shuttle Service Available) between building within the Qualcomm campus area & Lunch All the travel expenses taken care by Qualcomm. Overall it was good experience of having multiple interviews and you can also learn a lot. Practice makes man perfect. All the questions were based out of my resume & experience. Make sure you are perfect on the concepts mentioned in your resume.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Day to day activities in your previous projects?
most critical Issues faced and how were they resolved in your previous projects?
Channel Mapping from R99?
Initial UE Network acquisition process after power ON?
Compress mode?
Handoffs?
Calculate UARFCN?
Call Flow?
RSCP & EcNo?
How to reduce pilot pollution?
SNR?
Power Control?
How to calculate Pathloss?
Blind Hanover?
Reasons for High RSSI alarms on Node B and how to resolve?
Reasons for Low throughput on UL & DL?
BLER?
Tilt Recommendations?
coverage relations?
Layer Management Strategy?
modulation techniques?
multipath & rake receiver?
All UE Events like e1a?
UE Categories?
idle mode behaviour & channel used?
paging?
DRX Cycle?
how many times UE measurement reports sent to CN
OFDMA?
difference between WCDMA & LTE?