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Embedded Engineer Interview Experience

January 1, 2020

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied through a recruitment agency and received a request for a phone screen.

The interview was with a senior embedded engineer from Qualcomm. They asked important questions regarding:

JTAG debugging
Interrupts
Differences between software and hardware debugging
The volatile keyword in C and its implementations.

Questions

Basic C questions, some questions on RTOS, how to implement round-robin schedulers, what is the importance of volatile and extern in C.

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Interview Statistics

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Qualcomm's interview process for their Embedded Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Qualcomm's Embedded Engineer interview process in United States.

Qualcomm Work Experiences

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Qualcomm Interview Questions

String Compression III

Medium

You are given a string and a budget for removing characters. Your goal is to compress the string as much as possible after removing at most k characters. Find the length of the shortest possible compressed string.

Strings

Maximum Number of Ones

Hard

You are given dimensions of a grid and constraints on the number of cells you can select and the maximum side length of a selected square. Find the maximum number of ones you can cover by selecting squares within the grid.

Greedy Algorithms

Reverse Linked List

Easy

You are given the head of a singly linked list. Reverse the list and return the new head.

Linked ListsRecursion