I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Bengaluru) in Mar 2018
Interview
A vacancy popped up in the modem systems team in Bengaluru and a mail was sent to my university group regarding this. I applied for the interview by replying to the mail. The HR person contacted me over phone and fixed up an appointment with me for the interview. Next the interviewer called me up on the stipulated day of the interview and asked me for an introduction and the interview commenced after that
1)Can you explain the block diagrammatic structure of an OFDM system?
2)For what kind of channels do we use OFDM type of systems in a modem?
3)Why do we append a cyclic prefix in an to the transmitted OFDM symbol?
4)What will happen if we append zeros instead of a cyclic prefix?
I applied through university. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Nov 2025
Interview
round 1 - OA (campus)
round 2 - interview (which itself consisted of 2 tech rounds and 1 hr round)
Interview process was good, interviewers from company were too good
Technical questions on computer architecture based on core subjects like operating systems, computer networks they grilled specially on practical use cases and how data flow end to end.they asked about concept of pipeline and a bit about knowledge of microcontroller
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Computer architecture
Computer networks
Data structure based on linked list and tree
Qualcomm had come to my University for two roles – Hardware and Software. I applied for Hardware Role. There was one round of online tests and 2 interview rounds.
Round 1 (Online Test): It consisted of 3 sections with 20 questions in each section and 30 mins per section. You can travel through the questions in a particular section. The marking scheme was +1 for the correct answer and -0.25 for the wrong answer. Approximately 1500 people gave the test for both software and hardware role.
