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Software Engineer Interview Experience

March 1, 2024
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Ghosted after a nightmare of an interview process.

My screening interview went pretty well, and I moved on to five remote interviews with various team members. None of the interviews went according to schedule. Zero.

  • Two substitutes (day-of)
  • Two reschedules (...also day of)

Two interviewers didn't have their cameras on. The last scheduled interviewer, the site lead, completely whiffed, then rescheduled. Post-interview, they added "homework" in the form of a follow-up email.

I heard nothing from them until I followed up three weeks later, at which point I received an "oops" and a rejection. Yeesh.

This was all for a position that they hadn't even secured office space for yet, which I only found out after asking questions about the very generic position listing. For what it's worth, the engineers themselves seemed pretty cool, and it sounds like the interviews were thrown on them at the last second.

The interviews themselves seemed fairly standard, with some live coding, OS questions, and driver framework stuff. I didn't get any behavioral questions.

Questions

Live code a function that gets the n'th number in the Fibonacci sequence.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 259 interview experiences for the Qualcomm Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

30%
Pass Rate

Qualcomm's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive56%
Neutral33%
Negative11%

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

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