I applied through university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2011
Interview
Was a new-grad hire, fresh out of my bachelor's. Worked a lot through my school placement team. We were shipped out en-mass to be interviewed on site. There were maybe 30-60 of us selected for the process. They did a fantastic job of rallying support for the company, probably fighting the image that they're a little boring. Once we were all in San Diego, they put us up in hotels not far from the main campus. On the first day, everyone was given a soft interview. They took us all out to learn to surf at the beach, gave us a tour of the campus, and bought us dinner. The second day consisted of interviews. There were three interviews, each with a different person, spanning from four hours to six hours (in total). After the last one, we were given some time to explore the area.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were lots of questions about some of my research projects, my algorithms problems, and the sorts of problems I liked to solve. There wasn't much in the way of a coding challenge. That was a simple 'check for anagrams' problem.
I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Farnborough, London, England) in Jun 2026
Interview
Three weeks after applying, I was invited to a 30-minute screening interview for this Friday. However, only 20 minutes before the scheduled start time, they requested to reschedule to Monday. Given that I had already rearranged my day to accommodate the original meeting, I chose to withdraw my application out of respect for my own time.
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
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