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Hardware Design Verification Intern at Qualcomm
Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 29, 2013
Interview Details Interview was scheduled and setup by campus cooperative education office. It was a 30 minutes interview with 2 interviewers one of which was a project manager and the other a senior engineer on the team.
Interview Question – Since the interview was for a hardware position, they asked more software related questions than I expected but were all easy Answer Question
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Design Verification Engineer at Qualcomm
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Markham, ON Feb 2013 – Reviewed Feb 25, 2013
Interview Details Received phone call indicating they were interested in interviewing me followed by an email with a list of people I would interview with. The process was fairly disorganized with people coming and going at random times as the interview progressed with up to 8+ people in the room at certain times. Questions revolved around skills indicated on resume, and required drawing and coding on a whiteboard.
Interview Question – Write a decimal to hex function in C View Answer
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Multimedia Design and Verification Intern at Qualcomm
No Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON Feb 2013 – Reviewed Feb 11, 2013
Interview Details
Applied through University job portal
Interviewed within 2 weeks
Interview Question – Difference between a latch and a flipflop View Answers (2)
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ASIC Design and Design Verification Engineer at Qualcomm
No Offer – Interviewed in Markham, ON May 2012 – Reviewed Jul 27, 2012
Interview Details 3 rounds of interviews from different groups, from 11am to 4pm, including lunch time.
Interview Question – they focused a lot on OOP, which is unexpected given the title that I applied. Answer Question
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Multimedia Driver Software Engineering at Qualcomm
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Markham, ON May 2012 – Reviewed Jun 27, 2012
Interview Details Student interview at my university. Interviewer was very nice, and asked about stuff I've done on my resume. He seemed interested in what I've done. He described the job to me, and asked me on the spot whether I would take the job now. He also called me twice later repeating the question. Interview wasn't very technical in nature, but he asked whether or not I knew about threading, and locks.
Interview Question – Explain a situation where a deadlock would occur. View Answers (3)
Reason for Declining – Had an interview with a different employer that I thought was going well and wanted that job more.
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Engineering at Qualcomm
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Toronto, ON Mar 2011 – Reviewed Apr 08, 2011
Interview Details
I found out about open positions from a friend.
I applied online and he also forwarded my resume internally.
I had three interviews in person.
The first interview was about my past work and skills led by my manager and senior members of the team.
The second interview was about my previoust work with some skills questions with other members of the team.
The third interview was with my manager and director about the work that the team does, my future role in it, and about communication with the headquarter and remote sites.
Interview Questions
- What would I do to ensure that addres translation in a memory management unit completes within a given time frame? View Answer
- How I would assign address bits for channel and bank steering? View Answer
Negotiation Details – I was able to negotiate the salary to a certain extent.
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Modem Power Software Developer at Qualcomm
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA (US) May 2013 – Reviewed Jun 16, 2013 New
Interview Details
1st round HR interview : over phone. Basic questions on time management, priorities, college life etc
2nd round : Technical Phone interview, questions on C keywords (Static, volatile, const, typedef), questions on power optimization techniques, OS questions (deadlock, priority inversion, types of scheduling etc), and a coding question. (Write a function that counts the number of set bits in an integer number). Why is debugging memory leaks so difficult? How is it done?
ONSITE: 6 rounds on interview, 1 HR, 5 technical. whole day. Onsite questions follows
Interview Questions
- A and B are 32 bit numbers with first 16 bits valid in A and next 16 bits valid in B. (The non-valid bits aren't necessarily 0). WAP that adds A and B without using arithmetic operator. View Answer
- What are the different power optimization techniques used in a processor/chipset. questions on limitation and challenges in power debug. Answer Question
- WAP to count the number of set bits where no of iterations must be less than or equal to the no of bits in the number. View Answer
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1)WAP to count the number of set bits where no of iterations must be equal to the number of set bits, irrespective of the total number of bits. Now make this number of iterations 1/8th.
2) WAP for ceiling function of 2 nos. eg: Ceiling(5/3) should return 3. View Answer -
1) WAP to store an integer 11 at the memory location )x013DAFF2
2) Write a macro called MAX that returns max(a,b) View Answer
Negotiation Details – Salary is usually non-negotiable for starters, but they pay u more than enough...so you don't need to worry about that.
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Software Engineer at Qualcomm
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Jun 15, 2013 New
Interview Details
On campus
2 technical 1 hr
Interview Question – Questions on FSM , OS, Answer Question
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CPU Verification Engineer at Qualcomm
No Offer – Interviewed in Raleigh, NC (US) May 2013 – Reviewed Jun 11, 2013 New
Interview Details The whole interview process was divided into two part, First level was basic questions on projects, Brief project explanation. After he moved on to basic question on Pipelining, Caches,Forwarding, hazard detection and example of hazard. The Second interview was much more detailed on Level having OoO processing, Scheduling and bits of coding skills.
Interview Question – He asked me How to test a 32 bit adder....Well I said under the circumstances that we have the netlist we can use ATPG to get it done or match it with another perfect adder netlist. he didnt seem to be satisfied. Answer Question
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Staffing Specialist at Qualcomm
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in London, England (UK) – Reviewed Jun 05, 2013
Interview Details two onsite interviews plus three phone interviews, a little repetitive but it was good to get access to lots of different people to ask them questions. Had to speak with people in the US so those interviews were in the evening but that was fine. covered my general background, industry knowledge, most difficult hires, dealing with line managers,strengths, weaknesses
Interview Question – there were no difficult questions Answer Question
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