I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hyderābād) in Oct 2011
Interview
We had an internship offer in our campus. First round was online test consisting of general aptitude, os and basic computer science oriented questions. 20 were shortlisted. We had two rounds of interview. First was technical. Interview was conducted in various streams. They were asking questions from their specialized areas. Some got easy pannel. Some were difficult. Next was HR. They took 2 based on cgpa.
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