Qualcomm

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Diego, California

October 5, 2025

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

3 rounds + recruiter screen and hiring manager screen.

No LeetCode questions.

ML-based coding round and system design round.

Questions asked on the training loop, transformer, and encoder/decoder-based system design.

Questions

Resume-based C++ questions

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 123 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%

Neutral28%

Negative15%

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

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