Qualcomm

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Boulder, Colorado

April 1, 2016

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

There were two rounds of technical telephonic interviews, about a week apart. I heard back from HR after two weeks.

The coding question was to be completed on a shared screen.

The interviewers first went over my past internships and projects, and then asked questions specific to their team.

Questions

Code basic functions of a doubly linked list.

TCP stack and general questions about the TCP/IP protocol.

C++ data structures. Advantages and disadvantages of structure padding.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Qualcomm Software Engineer (Internship) role in Boulder, Colorado.

Success Rate

100%

Pass Rate

Qualcomm's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in Boulder, Colorado is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Qualcomm's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in Boulder, Colorado.

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Pros: Work-focused team, knowledgeable & supportive co-workers.

Cons: Too many restrictions on IP that hinder developers from being fully productive.

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Pros: Work-focused team, knowledgeable & supportive co-workers.

Cons: Too many restrictions on IP that hinder developers from being fully productive.

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Senior Staff Engineer • Current Employee

Boulder, Colorado, United States

October 25, 2015

Pros: Nice work-life balance, an easy work environment, and lots of talented co-workers.

Cons: Qualcomm expanded too much in past years, and now is seeing a much more difficult market, which forces it to downsize and move a lot of work to India. It's losing good people quickly.

Used to be a good company, but it's going downhill

Senior Staff Engineer • Current Employee

Boulder, Colorado, United States

October 25, 2015

Pros: Nice work-life balance, an easy work environment, and lots of talented co-workers.

Cons: Qualcomm expanded too much in past years, and now is seeing a much more difficult market, which forces it to downsize and move a lot of work to India. It's losing good people quickly.

It's a great place to work

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Pros: Qualcomm cares about its employees. Time and again, I've seen upper management work to make the employees happy. The company has great benefits and attempts to recognize innovation and hard work.

Cons: Qualcomm is a fast-paced engineering environment that can burn people out. The company is still struggling to figure out the right balance of process and winging it.

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Boulder, Colorado, United States

Pros: Qualcomm cares about its employees. Time and again, I've seen upper management work to make the employees happy. The company has great benefits and attempts to recognize innovation and hard work.

Cons: Qualcomm is a fast-paced engineering environment that can burn people out. The company is still struggling to figure out the right balance of process and winging it.

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Boulder, Colorado, United States

Pros: Work-focused team, knowledgeable & supportive co-workers.

Cons: Too many restrictions on IP that hinder developers from being fully productive.

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Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Pros: Work-focused team, knowledgeable & supportive co-workers.
Cons: Too many restrictions on IP that hinder developers from being fully productive.

Used to be a good company, but it's going downhill

Senior Staff Engineer • Current Employee

Boulder, Colorado, United States

October 25, 2015

Pros: Nice work-life balance, an easy work environment, and lots of talented co-workers.

Cons: Qualcomm expanded too much in past years, and now is seeing a much more difficult market, which forces it to downsize and move a lot of work to India. It's losing good people quickly.

4.0
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Senior Staff Engineer • Current Employee
Boulder, Colorado, United States
October 25, 2015
Pros: Nice work-life balance, an easy work environment, and lots of talented co-workers.
Cons: Qualcomm expanded too much in past years, and now is seeing a much more difficult market, which forces it to downsize and move a lot of work to India. It's losing good people quickly.

It's a great place to work

Staff Engineer / Manager • Current Employee

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Pros: Qualcomm cares about its employees. Time and again, I've seen upper management work to make the employees happy. The company has great benefits and attempts to recognize innovation and hard work.

Cons: Qualcomm is a fast-paced engineering environment that can burn people out. The company is still struggling to figure out the right balance of process and winging it.

4.0
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Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Pros: Qualcomm cares about its employees. Time and again, I've seen upper management work to make the employees happy. The company has great benefits and attempts to recognize innovation and hard work.
Cons: Qualcomm is a fast-paced engineering environment that can burn people out. The company is still struggling to figure out the right balance of process and winging it.

Qualcomm Interview Questions

String Compression III

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.

Maximum Number of Ones

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

You are given the head of a singly linked list. Reverse the list and return the new head.

Linked ListsRecursion

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