Design Verification Interview Experience - San Jose, California
Process
The interview process was pretty neat. It took place on the Qualcomm Atheros campus in San Jose.
The interview was 3.5 hours long and consisted of 4 technical rounds (45 minutes each) and 1 HR round (15 minutes).
The questions were pretty straightforward and involved project-related questions, programming, and some general questions.
Questions
Basic Pipeline questions focused mainly on Branch Prediction and BTB.
How do you find if the memory is little or big endian?
How do you increase processor speed?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Qualcomm Design Verification role in San Jose, California.
Success Rate
Qualcomm's interview process for their Design Verification roles in San Jose, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Qualcomm's Design Verification interview process in San Jose, California.
Qualcomm Work Experiences
- 4.0A good company to work forStaff Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesNovember 28, 2013Pros: Qualcomm provides competitive compensation. There are lots of opportunities for internal training and learning. There are opportunities to transfer internally to switch to a different area.Cons: Even though there are opportunities for training and learning, it's usually too busy to find time to take those lessons. Similar to most big companies, you only get to work on a small scope of things.
- 3.0Stable But Boring WorkAlgorithm Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesMarch 16, 2016Pros: It is stable and normal.Cons: Sometimes it is boring to work in a big company like Qualcomm.
- 2.0No life-work balanceSenior Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesDecember 2, 2024Pros: Trying to think of one.Cons: No work-life balance and very rude.
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