I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Boulder, CO)
Interview
Applied online. Some questions asked:
Write code to:
1. convert from big endian to small endian.
2. convert decimal to binary.
3. Return the n element from end of a linked list.
4. Count the occurrence of every word
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Feb 2013
Interview
The interview process started with a recruiter contacting me with the details of the position and a time slot for a phone interview.
The phone interview was pretty simple, asked a few questions about RTOS : mutex, semaphore, stacks and heaps. Also asked a C question: what will be the address of an integer pointer after increment of the pointer variable directly.
Once I cleared that, the recruiter confirmed a time slot for an onsite interview.
The onsite interview had 7 rounds including a HR round which usually lasts from 9-5pm.
The HR round just includes some basic questions about your current job and your salary expectations.
The next 6 rounds included interviews with director of engineering, senior staff engineers and staff engineers.
The questions were pretty basic. Mostly in C language such as strcpy, strlen,bit counting etc...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. char * array = "Hello";
char array[] = "Hello";
what is the difference between the above two, using sizeof operator ?
Ans sizeof of an array gives the number of elements in the array but sizeof of a pointer gives the actual size of a pointer variable
2. how does the linux system know where to look for a particular program when entered in the command line?
Ans: Path variable