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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Diego, California

June 1, 2012
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

All technical questions for the hour-long phone interview. He started out with basics: C++ keywords such as static, volatile, and atomic operations.

Then, a coding question was asked, where you were asked to identify a certain 5-bit pattern given a bit stream.

The onsite interview was 6 hours long, with a different interviewer per hour. The structure was very similar to the phone interview, where they started out asking about your background and some basic knowledge questions, and then presented coding problems.

I was able to answer 80% of the questions and received interest from 3 different teams, but did not receive an offer for US branches due to VISA problems.

Questions

Identify a 5-bit pattern, given a bit stream, accessible by function uint8_t getBits(), which returns 4 bits at a time.

Write a function that determines how many 1s are in an integer.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 130 interview experiences for the Qualcomm Software Engineer role in San Diego, California.

Success Rate

33%
Pass Rate

Qualcomm's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Diego, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive58%
Neutral27%
Negative15%

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

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