I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hyderābād) in Jan 2019
Interview
I applied for WLAN Firmware developer.
To be called for interview I had to clear online coding test.
Practicing hackerrank practice problems are enough for passing the test.
OS and C concepts are mandatory for Interview. For WLAN basics of WiFi maybe needed.
Description of projects in college or in previous industry.
What problems you face and how did you solved them.
Interview questions [23]
Question 1
C code for adding and deleting nodes in a linked list. Modify the same for circular linked list
There is a mod 60 hardware counter. It generates a overflow interrupt. I can access the count value register of the counter. Write a program to show the time in Hour Minute and Seconds to user.
Which one will behave how in which OS, which one crashes faster. Why?
while(1)
int *p = (int*)malloc(10);
while(1){
int *p = (int*)malloc(10);
memset(p, 1, 10);
}
three rounds of interview
1. dsa two qns from hacker rank (1 easy and 1 medium) and projects
2. dsa 1 qn (medium) and a api read and manipulate qns from hacker rank
i got rejected in 2nd round
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Cork)
Interview
HR & Technical, pretty standard. There was a few coding questions, and the interviewer was helpful and they were trying to help clarify the questions. HR was helpful and made a lot of customizations for me
2 rounds with both technical and focusing on computer architecture and performance. risc related questions and how to improve the performance on superscalar computers. the interviewer did not expect full answer but expected to know the basics about superscalar
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
superscalar architecture and risc architecture. how to improve performance
