Qualcomm

Embedded Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Diego, California

February 1, 2022

Positive ExperienceNo Response

Process

The first part was a description of the company, the project, and the position requirements.

Then, the second and longest part of the interview was about my background. I answered questions on specific topics that I mentioned in my experiences.

Finally, there was a short C examination.

Questions

Interview questions with C programming language.

Topics covered:

Bitwise operations
Function pointers
Interrupt handlers
Task switch operations based on priority

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 25 interview experiences for the Qualcomm Embedded Software Engineer role in San Diego, California.

Success Rate

20%

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%

Neutral24%

Negative28%

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

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 Lists