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Staff Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Diego, California

June 1, 2011
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Process

A super technical interview was conducted with six technical individuals and one recruiter.

In most cases, the interviewers finished on time and did set aside time for Q&A.

Each slot included technical questions on background, a C question, and a problem-solving puzzle.

Although a couple of the interviewers asked questions in the area of their own strengths, overall, they seemed to go out of their comfort zones to ask questions.

Questions

Was presented with buggy code and asked to identify all bugs. The code snippet was related to finding substrings and substituting with other substrings.

  • Program to find the missing number in an array.
  • Program using memcpy and identifying issues related to memory corruption.
  • Bit manipulation routines with optimal solutions.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 8 interview experiences for the Qualcomm Staff Software Engineer role in San Diego, California.

Success Rate

63%
Pass Rate

Qualcomm's interview process for their Staff Software Engineer roles in San Diego, California is on the easier side as most engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive63%
Neutral13%
Negative25%

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

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