I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hyderābād) in Aug 2021
Interview
It was very smooth process, all my 3 technical rounds were conducted in a single day back to back. All rounds had coding + technical questions. And it was heavily focused on bit manipulation , linked list and OS
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Merge Sort,
Height of a binary tree
Finding no of 1s in a binary number.
A quick sort variant was asked.
Finding single number in a array with duplicates.
Threads vs process
Deadlocks definition and how OS handles it.
Find common intersection in 2 linked list
Find loop in linked list.
three rounds of interview
1. dsa two qns from hacker rank (1 easy and 1 medium) and projects
2. dsa 1 qn (medium) and a api read and manipulate qns from hacker rank
i got rejected in 2nd round
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Cork)
Interview
HR & Technical, pretty standard. There was a few coding questions, and the interviewer was helpful and they were trying to help clarify the questions. HR was helpful and made a lot of customizations for me
2 rounds with both technical and focusing on computer architecture and performance. risc related questions and how to improve the performance on superscalar computers. the interviewer did not expect full answer but expected to know the basics about superscalar
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
superscalar architecture and risc architecture. how to improve performance
