Qualcomm

Great technology and experience, terrible politics

Senior Staff Engineer

Current Employee

Has worked at Qualcomm for 6 years

September 24, 2018

San Diego, California

Great technology and experience, terrible politics

Senior Staff Engineer•Current Employee•Worked at Qualcomm for 6 years

September 24, 2018

San Diego, California

4.0

RecommendsNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO

Pros

Good compensation and the people are good.

Cons

Everything is overcomplicated. It takes meetings to organize another meeting.

Advice to Management

Be humble.

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Qualcomm Interview Questions

String Compression III

Medium

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.

Strings

Maximum Number of Ones

Hard

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

Easy

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

Linked ListsRecursion

Qualcomm Interview Experiences

Senior Staff Engineer

San Diego, California, United States

July 1, 2017

You will go through two interview processes: one on the phone and one onsite. The phone interview can be half an hour and is mainly technical. It will cover a wide range of questions and areas. The onsite interview will involve being interviewed by 5