I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Boulder, CO) in Mar 2011
Interview
I first got a call for a phone interview with a manager of the team. It was a one hour long interview and consisted of questions about pointers, page faults, memory leak, CPU cycles. I was asked to write a string concatenation function and a string comparison function without using the built in functions. Then as required for the position he asked me a lot of questions about 3D computer graphics. Then I was also asked simple concepts in C++ like copy constructor, deep copy, shallow copy and so on. If your basic concepts of CS are clear you can go through this interview. Then I was scheduled for a second phone interview. This interview was more Computer Graphics oriented. The interviewer emailed me two textured images and asked lots of questions on them. Then he asked me more position oriented questions like define benchmarks for the game you are playing on your smartphone. This interview was more technical than the first one and drilled through all the concepts required for the position. Then I got a call for an on-site interview which mainly consisted of my past experience. I was asked to write a code to find the most frequent character in a string. Overall it was a very good experience interviewing with Qualcomm. The interview process was very specific.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Based on the texture images I just emailed you, what do you think must have gone wrong? How would you fix it?
I approach interviews spontaneously, focusing on genuine technical discussions rather than memorized answers. I share real experiences from my embedded software projects, discussing complex issues with sensor integration very naturally.
It will be 3 round interview process with 2 round technical and 3 will be managerial round .
In Technical round it would be DSA : LinkList, Bit manupulation mostly
They would ask regarding oops concept .They will also ask regarding question mentioned in resume . It would be interactive .
In managerial round you could be asked about work related stuf and salary expectation
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (New York, NY) in Feb 2026
Interview
I have 6 rounds of interview First I have interview with Hiring manager discussed about the my resume and projects and talked about the projects in detail. Then 5 rounds of interview has been scheduled and all of them has same kind of interview type almost all 45 minutes interview. Initial 15-20 mins about my background and some technical questions and then 1 problem solving question with screen sharing.
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