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Embedded Software Developer Interview Experience - San Diego, California

January 1, 2012
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Phone interview: 1 hour. Waited 2 weeks.

In-person interview with 6 people, 1 hour each. Waited 2 weeks.

Everyone is encouraging and makes you feel like you'll get the job, but you won't.

Questions

Phone interview topics:

  • Operating systems:
    • Priority inversion
    • ISR & interrupt vector table
    • Order of complexity of sorting algorithms

In-person interviews covered everything from:

  • Multiple inheritance
  • Static keyword
  • Volatile keyword
  • Semaphores
  • Program stack vs. heap
  • Float to int conversion
  • Set/clear bits
  • Swap string in place
  • Linked list insert node

These were pretty standard questions, but there were a lot of them. The specific questions depended on what each interviewer wanted to ask.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Qualcomm Embedded Software Developer role in San Diego, California.

Success Rate

25%
Pass Rate

Qualcomm's interview process for their Embedded Software Developer roles in San Diego, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive25%
Neutral50%
Negative25%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Qualcomm's Embedded Software Developer interview process in San Diego, California.

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