Qualcomm

Hardware Engineer Interview Experience - Hyderābād, Telangana

August 19, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Two rounds were conducted. The first was for resume and basic OS questions, asked according to my project. The second was resume-based. The third was HR, but it was only 10 minutes and a formality.

Questions

Write the pipelined code for my MIPS processor, specifically focusing on the Fetch and Decode stages.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the Qualcomm Hardware Engineer role in Hyderābād, Telangana.

Success Rate

14%

Pass Rate

Qualcomm's interview process for their Hardware Engineer roles in Hyderābād, Telangana is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive43%

Neutral43%

Negative14%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Qualcomm's Hardware Engineer interview process in Hyderābād, Telangana.

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