El proceso tomó 1 semana. Acudí a una entrevista en Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) en abr 2011
Entrevista
Submited my resume on their website. Got their email in the 3rd day to set up an phone interview. Then got their invatation to on-site interview on the 3rd day after the phone interview. VP meet me imediately after the on-site interview and got their offer the next morning. Everything finished in 10 days. Very impressed with their efficiency.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Software pipelining.
Vectorizaion optimizations.
Many many other compiler algorithms.
How to debug segmentaion fault.
8 algorithms to implement detecting a duplicated number in an array of 1000.
Good. Technical details were discussed clearly, together with my past projects and relevant domain knowledge. The interview was well structured and focused, with questions that allowed me to present my experience, technical background, and problem-solving approach in a coherent way.
Posso dizer que num geral positiva, processo rápido, em uma semana foi realizado. Perguntas de nível médio, bem técnicas mesmo e assertivas. Entrevistadores simpáticos, duração longa de entrevista, mas foram ok.
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó más de 1 semana. Acudí a una entrevista en Qualcomm (Chennai) en mar 2026
Entrevista
There are 4 interview rounds.
1st 3 are technical, and the final one is a managerial round
All technical rounds focus on pointers, threads, semaphores, mutexes, memory management, and debugging/output questions. DSA is must.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Cache mechanism, if the cache is full, then what will happen
Dangling pointer
Bitwise OR, AND, and XOR
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