I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Oct 2023
Interview
Applied through a recruiter, and was offered 1st round interview 2 weeks after applying. The interview was a week later and consisted of a walkthrough of CV and experience with some technical questions thrown in. Was told that they were looking for a range of experience and skills as they are looking to fill a number of roles and that my CV would be passed to the main hiring team for the next round. A week after my interview I followed up with the recruiter to be told that they have other candidates at a later stage and plan to go with them. Communication from Qualcomm was very slow and required a lot of following up on my side. The mention of a 2nd round to then not hear anything was disappointing.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Seoul) in Oct 2025
Interview
I applied online. The first round is an online technical assessment on computer science & machine learning basics. Once passed, there is another technical interview via Zoom, with a focus on deep learning & coding.
To be fair it wasn't particularly difficult, but I wasn't well prepared and there's a little bit of language barrier (korean & english), so I didn't get an offer in the end.
->One easy and one medium leetcode level problem
->CNN based number of parameters calculation
->About project , what dataset was used ,what model was used
->C++ class based questions , design a simple class
->Filter related questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
->One easy and one medium leetcode level problem
->CNN based number of parameters calculation
->About project , what dataset was used ,what model was used
->C++ class based questions , design a simple class
->Filter related questions
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Bengaluru) in May 2025
Interview
Implement Causal Masking in decoder only architecture using Pytorch.
What is grouped query attention.
What is Mixture of Experts.
Difference between encoder only architecture and decoder only architecture.
Explain convolution operation in CNNs.
What is NMS algorithm in YOLO