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      RF Hardware Engineer Interview

      Jan 5, 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Qualcomm

      Interview

      There were 5 rounds of interview back to back, each taken by a different interviewer. They asked about basics of RF design and analog integrated circuit design. 1. Noise figure questions 2. Smith chart questions 3. PLL

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. Noise figure questions 2. Smith chart questions 3. PLL
      Answer question
      1

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      RF Hardware Engineer Interview

      Nov 18, 2012
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Diego, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA)

      Interview

      Apply on the website, make sure your plaintext resume is readable. Took them about 4-6 weeks to get back to me with a phone screening. I spoke with one of the directors of engineering. He was very nice/sincere and technically apt. Questions were pretty basic about IP3, smith chart, vswr, and how you would make measurements in a lab. The on-site interview consists of 5 technical interviews about an hour each. Almost every interview asked to draw a RF front end architecture and draw/explain how a phase lock loop works. Expect questions about constellations, eye diagrams, RF design challenges, IP3, p1dB, smith chart, amp class biasing, analog RF filters (be perpared to draw elliptic, cheby, butterworth, etc), noise figure, etc. There are some esoteric terms which I was unfamiliar with such as gamma opt(optimum matching coefficient) and beta for FM (modulation index for FM). You really need to be able to answer questions on ALL of these topics. I'd say I aced 4 of the 5 interviews and did okay on one and wasn't offered a job, so make sure you know everything I just described inside and out. There are no behavioral or situational questions. They seem to only care about what you know and not whether you'll be easy to work with. This is a bit disconcerting for people such as myself who have worked on a design team before and know the challenges of working with stubborn engineers.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Be prepared to talk about stochastic probability density functions as they relate to signal theory.
      Answer question
      12

      RF Hardware Engineer Interview

      Jul 15, 2012
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Diego, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in May 2012

      Interview

      I apply for the job and I received an e-mail for a phone interview 1 week after applying. The phone interview was with an engineer. It was about things on my resume, and questions about receiver, transmitter, key parameters of LNA, PA, explain each, why we use LNA, why we should be in IF, mixers, antennas. She also ask me lab test equipment I used. I passed the phone interview and had the on-site interview with 5 managers and my recruiter. The MOST important things you MUST know are Smith chart, IP3 and PLL. They all asked me questions about that, and also on filters, SAW, BAW technology. You should also be able to talk about the projects mentioned on your resume. I didn't get an offer because I wasn't ready for the interview, but I learnt a lot.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Directions I should give to design engineers: where to put each components (filters, mixers, LNA etc) of the transceiver, and why. What kind of filter I should use, why?
      1 Answer
      10

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