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      Software Engineer Audio DSP Interview

      8 Jul 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Jun 2017

      Interview

      I applied online and was called and emailed by two separate HR members to schedule a phone interview. The phone interview was about 45 minutes and was almost entirely deep technical questions on operating systems, concurrency, multithreaded programming, and embedded systems concepts. About a week after the phone interview I got an email to schedule the on-site. The on-site ran from 10:30 to 4:30 and was made up of 6 total interviews, 5 of which were technical with a mixture of staff engineers, managers, and directors/VPs of engineering. It also included a lunch interview where one of your interviewers buy you lunch then do a more informal interview while you eat. The interviews were a mixture of talking about my past projects, conceptual OS questions, and a huge number of C questions where you're either given a code fragment and asked to say what the error/output is or asked to write a C function to do something. You need to be really strong at C programming and the C language (scope of variables, keywords, all kinds of memory allocation) to stand a chance for a SWE position here, it's much closer to computer engineering than computer science. Only negatives with the experience was a bit of disorganization, I was contacted by two different HR reps for the same position, one of my interviewers didn't even show up, but other than that it was a positive experience.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      Write a function in C to merge two sorted arrays into a single sorted array.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Given half a dozen C code fragments, identify the error or explain what the output will be.
      Answer question

      Question 3

      DSP questions - how an A/D converter works, what the format of an audio file looks like
      Answer question

      Question 4

      Deep dive into architecture/OS - how to detect page corruption, how to find the offset of an element inside a struct without accessing the variable directly, how to synchronize memory across two CPUs in a cluster.
      Answer question

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