Hardware Engineer Interview Experience - San Diego, California
Process
I was interning in the summer.
I had six interviews on my last day.
They tried to cover all areas of the ASIC design flow, including data structures and basic algorithms; nothing too complicated.
Questions
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Draw a Finite State Machine (FSM) for recognizing a particular sequence.
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Computer Architecture:
- Caches, Coherency protocols (MOESI, MOSI, etc.)
- Pipelining: pros and cons.
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Basic C questions:
- memcpy
- Linked lists, etc.
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Timing violations and how to fix them.
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Interview Statistics
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Success Rate
Qualcomm's interview process for their Hardware Engineer roles in San Diego, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
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Qualcomm Work Experiences
- 4.0Stable But Slow PromotionsHardware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Diego, California, United StatesMay 10, 2010Pros: Good company with a stable job.Cons: Promotions are difficult, and salaries are 10-15% below market rate.
- 2.0Bureaucracy and PoliticsHardware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Diego, California, United StatesMarch 10, 2023Pros: Compensation and benefits are decent.Cons: There are too many silos and a lack of communication between teams, while at the same time keeping way too many useless meetings. It is hard to make changes, and people are not open to listen to new ideas. There is lots of internal politics and unhealthy competition between teams and locations. In many cases, this yields duplicated solutions and efforts.
- 5.0It's amazing to work atHardware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Diego, California, United StatesNovember 22, 2019Pros: Good work ethics, good work-life balance.Cons: Compensation not at par with other companies.
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