I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Bengaluru) in Feb 2024
Interview
3 rounds, 2 coding 1 design. prepare c language concepts, os concepts and bit manipulation if u are preparing for embedded.
Interviews mostly happens in less than a week. Prepare well.
First, one screening interview. After, a panel of 4 interviews with a break of 30 minutes at the midpoint. Hiring decision was made after the panel, but due to hiring freezes the contract was not signed until a two months after.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic C++ data structure and algorithm questions.
A lot of questions about pointers and bitwise operations.
Hardest question was implementing a custom allocator.
There were 3 rounds. First round contains basic questions about projects in the resume. Some C++ concept and they asked about how do you flip a bit? After this round, I had a lunch and they told me that we could not proceed with you.
