Had 3 technical 35-45 minute phone interviews for a Software Engineering position at QCT.

1st Interview:

Asked about everything mentioned on the resume, about each and every word. I walked through my resume, answering all questions.

Technical Questions asked:

• Difference between Array and Linked List?
• If I had a phone book to implement, which of the two would I use? And why?
• In layman's terms, explain CDMA and GSM and their differences.
• What is a buffer overflow?
• Asked everything about the projects I had mentioned.

Later, I was asked behavioral questions.

2nd Interview:

Technical Questions asked:

• Explain the final and static keywords.
• Outputs of exception handling situations. For example, will a finally block be executed if a catch block is not written? When will System.exit() be called?
• What are StringBuffer and StringBuilder?
• What is a singleton class?
• Does multiple inheritance exist in both C++ and Java?
• Difference between C and Java.
• Difference between Array and LinkedList.
• Asked a few questions on projects.

3rd Interview:

Technical Questions asked:

• Difference between C and Java.
• Explain method overloading.
• Explain CDMA and LTE.

Questions to test logical reasoning:

• How many gas stations are there in the whole of USA? (Please do not come up with any arbitrary number; they do not want that!)
• How would you test a salt cellar? What parameters would you consider for testing?

1. How many gas stations are there in the whole of the USA? (Please do not come up with any arbitrary number; they do not want that!)

2. How would you test for a salt cellar? What parameters would you consider for testing?