I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Chennai) in Oct 2019
Interview
Baisc check on my understanding of the concepts. Apart from that the interviewer focussed on my projects. Asked me to explain the project of my liking using state diagrams. Gave me some time to think of I'm stuck at any point.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you explain your project using simple words?
I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hyderābād) in Oct 2023
Interview
Mostly it was related to projects related to resume and some basic question on Architecture. Coming to hardware topics I have written Y-86 64 architecture and projects related to verilog etc. So they mainly focused on them
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most of the questions are related to resume.
Some questions related to digital architecture like pipelining, sequential design. Some related to STA and finite state machines
I got an email to choose from a number of time slots. I selected one and had an interview. The interviewer wasn't very friendly and went straight to technical questions without any icebreaking.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions were basic stuff from diverse topics. However, some of them were from tables/charts from the text (you need to memorize, or else impossible to say the exact values).
First round - MCQ coding questions, math questions
Second round - Questions on project mentioned in my resume, basic questions on coding, image processing, "Tell me about yourself" question
Third round - HR formality to say that you are selected, answer any questions I had.