Qualcomm

Software Applications Engineer Interview Experience

October 1, 2009

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had a phone interview with one software engineer. One week later, I received an email inviting me for an onsite interview.

There were a total of 8 people who interviewed me, and each session lasted about 40 minutes.

The questions ranged from programming languages to algorithms and operating systems. The questions were not difficult, but preparation was necessary to answer them well.

Questions

How to debug an interrupt?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Qualcomm Software Applications Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

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Pass Rate

Qualcomm's interview process for their Software Applications Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Qualcomm's Software Applications Engineer interview process in United States.

Qualcomm Work Experiences

Very poor work-life balance

Engineer • Former Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

January 18, 2021

Pros: Better Pay, RSUs, and Perks

Cons: Very poor work-life balance. Very small, repetitive work.

Very poor work-life balance

Engineer • Former Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

January 18, 2021

Pros: Better Pay, RSUs, and Perks

Cons: Very poor work-life balance. Very small, repetitive work.

Company's getting old

Senior Engineer • Current Employee

San Diego, California, United States

August 18, 2009

Pros: health insurance, vacation, work/life balance

Cons: Poor management. HR policies and salaries are not synced up throughout the organization. They do not recognize or reward hard work.

Company's getting old

Senior Engineer • Current Employee

San Diego, California, United States

August 18, 2009

Pros: health insurance, vacation, work/life balance

Cons: Poor management. HR policies and salaries are not synced up throughout the organization. They do not recognize or reward hard work.

Good Growth, Challenging Work

Engineer • Current Employee

Irvine, California, United States

Pros: Good place to work and progress.

Cons: Matrix setup makes you work on multiple tasks simultaneously, which can be really challenging and exhausting sometimes.

Good Growth, Challenging Work

Engineer • Current Employee

Irvine, California, United States

Pros: Good place to work and progress.

Cons: Matrix setup makes you work on multiple tasks simultaneously, which can be really challenging and exhausting sometimes.

Very poor work-life balance

Engineer • Former Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

January 18, 2021

Pros: Better Pay, RSUs, and Perks

Cons: Very poor work-life balance. Very small, repetitive work.

1.0
Very poor work-life balance
Engineer • Former Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
January 18, 2021
Pros: Better Pay, RSUs, and Perks
Cons: Very poor work-life balance. Very small, repetitive work.

Company's getting old

Senior Engineer • Current Employee

San Diego, California, United States

August 18, 2009

Pros: health insurance, vacation, work/life balance

Cons: Poor management. HR policies and salaries are not synced up throughout the organization. They do not recognize or reward hard work.

2.0
Company's getting old
Senior Engineer • Current Employee
San Diego, California, United States
August 18, 2009
Pros: health insurance, vacation, work/life balance
Cons: Poor management. HR policies and salaries are not synced up throughout the organization. They do not recognize or reward hard work.

Good Growth, Challenging Work

Engineer • Current Employee

Irvine, California, United States

Pros: Good place to work and progress.

Cons: Matrix setup makes you work on multiple tasks simultaneously, which can be really challenging and exhausting sometimes.

3.0
Good Growth, Challenging Work
Engineer • Current Employee
Irvine, California, United States
July 31, 2020
Pros: Good place to work and progress.
Cons: Matrix setup makes you work on multiple tasks simultaneously, which can be really challenging and exhausting sometimes.

Qualcomm Interview Questions

String Compression III

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.

Maximum Number of Ones

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

You are given the head of a singly linked list. Reverse the list and return the new head.

Linked ListsRecursion

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