Qualcomm

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Diego, California

September 3, 2024

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Microsoft Teams call.

Friendly interviewer.

My interview process unfortunately ended with the first round due to a hiring freeze, but I would definitely interview with the company again.

The interview lasted about 45 minutes.

Questions

Are you familiar with Cadence?

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