I applied online through the Qualcomm career portal. The manager contacted me via email after four weeks and scheduled a telephone interview.

The telephone interview was straightforward. It lasted for 30 minutes, and the manager explained the position and quizzed me on my resume.

Two days later, I received an email inviting me to San Diego for an onsite interview. On the day of the interview, I met with HR and was handed the schedule. I had to meet with five people, including the hiring manager and others with ranks varying from Senior Electrical Engineer to Senior Manager to Director. All the interviews lasted 45 minutes.

I had lunch with the hiring manager. The manager then gave me a tour of the lab and introduced me to the team. After that, I was interviewed by two additional members of the team, apart from the five members listed on the schedule.

The technical questions were simple, focusing mostly on my projects, C structures and pointers, Verilog HDL, and assembly language coding. Having strong fundamentals helped me answer all questions with ease. There were also occasional behavioral questions.

The final interview was with HR, covering the usual topics: "Why Qualcomm?", "Have you interviewed elsewhere?", strengths, and weaknesses.

I returned the next day and received the offer within a week.

Here's a breakdown of tasks:

• Provide an example of a structure used in your project.
• Write a function to swap two values using pointers.
• Analyze an assembly code snippet and explain what it does.
• Write C code to determine the number of 1s in a 32-bit number.