I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Boulder, CO)
Interview
Applied through online. First, it was a technical phone interview. The interviewer was a staff engineer and it took around 1 hr 15 minutes. Then was invited for site interview after 1 week. Site interview was almost half day long. Four different people took separate technical interviews each 50 minutes long. And then there was 15 minutes short HR interview.
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Questions were related to Wireless communications and Programming.
Wireless Communications--- Shannon's rule, SNR, Bandwidth, Throughput, Difference between GSM, CDMA and LTE, Convolution concepts, call flow in LTE, L1-L2 layers, Modulation schemes.
Programming--- C++, Python, bit manipulation, linked list, multiple inheritance, find out missing number in incoming random integers, test case plan, big picture for test cases etc.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA)
Interview
It was easy and straight forward based on requirents and mostly questions from my resume and waiting for the response. Questions related to QXDM, TCP/ UDP, testing experience ,4g,5g, and questions on RF
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Explain the difference betwee TCP/UDP and different frequencies that 5G operates?
I applied through university. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hyderābād) in Aug 2021
Interview
3 rounds total, 2 technical and 1 HR. the first round was quite easy, discussed about BTech subjects. but the second round was much intuitive, got into a debate on the project.
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What else could be used as an application of puf function.
One telephone round. If passed, an onsite interview. Three technical rounds, one managerial over lunch and the last one was HR. In the technical rounds, basics of wireless communication and resume based questions were posed. Also one whole technical round was just programming.
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Resume based technical questions
Wireless communication basics
Programming - C, Python
Python - regex for IP address
Matlab - exchange the diagonal elements