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Embedded Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Diego, California

April 1, 2017
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online.

Phone round initially with a team member. Courteous and friendly interviewers.

Got called for an on-site interview in 1 week.

Met with 5 technical team members and 1 HR recruiter for interviews at the San Diego campus. Long day, lots of questions and coding challenges. Did well in coding challenges, but they require better, in-depth answers to conceptual questions.

Questions

Bit manipulation questions:

  • Detect pattern of ones
  • Write masks to insert a pattern of ones in a 32-bit integer

String and array manipulations:

  • Reverse string
  • Reverse words in a string
  • Find duplicates in an array

Concepts:

  • What is virtual memory?
  • What are caches?
  • What is priority inversion?
  • What is reentrancy?
  • Semaphore vs. Mutex
  • What are spinlocks?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 29 interview experiences for the Qualcomm Embedded Software Engineer role in San Diego, California.

Success Rate

17%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive48%
Neutral28%
Negative24%

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

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