I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Nov 2009
Interview
My skill sets match perfectly with their wireless system jobs but got selected for some software position interview. Have a feeling that either their HRs are not doing their job or they are bluffing on their career website. Anyways, I got 6 technical interviews, 4 from the group I am interviewing with and two outsider engineers. Questions are typical CS questions. They value skill sets rather than potential. Guess only Microsoft will consider people from Mechanical or Philosophy major as SDEs.
I approach interviews spontaneously, focusing on genuine technical discussions rather than memorized answers. I share real experiences from my embedded software projects, discussing complex issues with sensor integration very naturally.
It will be 3 round interview process with 2 round technical and 3 will be managerial round .
In Technical round it would be DSA : LinkList, Bit manupulation mostly
They would ask regarding oops concept .They will also ask regarding question mentioned in resume . It would be interactive .
In managerial round you could be asked about work related stuf and salary expectation
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (New York, NY) in Feb 2026
Interview
I have 6 rounds of interview First I have interview with Hiring manager discussed about the my resume and projects and talked about the projects in detail. Then 5 rounds of interview has been scheduled and all of them has same kind of interview type almost all 45 minutes interview. Initial 15-20 mins about my background and some technical questions and then 1 problem solving question with screen sharing.
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