The interviewer is rude and blunt and arrogant, trying to poke holes in my resume. Some questions about the 5-stages CPU pipeline and memory barriers. In the job description, it says CPU/GPU/DSP engineering but when I ask the interviewers he said it's DSP only.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Cambridge, England) in Jun 2025
Interview
There was an initial virtual meetup to go over the job role and walkthrough CV, followed by a two hour long technical interview.
Many aspects of DSP and software engineering were covered including, multi threading, rate matching and data structures.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They provided code that demonstrated the use of a Mutex in a multithreading context and asked me to explain how it worked and the limitations of the system.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Feb 2019
Interview
Technical questions around a table, similar to white boarding sessions. Several different interviewers. Questions about DFT. DTFT. Spectrum analysis. Modulation schemes. BW and period. The interview took all day. The feedback was pretty timely.
