Qualcomm

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. There are 4 interview rounds. The 1st 3 are technical, and the final one is a managerial round. All technical rounds focus on: * pointers * threads * semaphores * mutexes * memory management

One telephonic round. One face-to-face interview (three people interviewed). There was no whiteboarding, but code snippets had to be written on paper. The hiring manager asked puzzles where the answers were not considered convincing.

This was one of the worst interview processes I've experienced. I was initially mapped to the GPU team, where I had three rounds of technical interviews. These covered OS, C++, hardware, and coding, and I found them to be great. The interviewers wer