The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in May 2010
Interview
Hiring Process has three telephonic interview.It's usually taken managers and senior design engineers in the team. No 1:1 interview for intern positions. The interview was not grilling.
Basic digital design questions
(1) Set Up and Hold Time Violations and how to fix those violations.
(2) Delays in ICs
(3) About the overall deign flow of IC
(4) Some Concepts of Low Power Implementation
(6) About a sequence detector / state machines
(7) How to size transistors in actual IC design involving many transistors (not the logical effort in text book)
(8) Design of Flip Flop.
Asked about my projects in my resume.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How will you size the transistors ( in real world which involves many transistors ) ? Not the logical effort sizing in text books.
I applied through university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Sept 2025
Interview
Qualcomm conducted an online assessment,then it shortlisted top 5 performers , the first round was technical ,it went around 50 min ,after 1st round 3 were selected for next round ,the next round was HR round,it went about 10min,2 were offered internship out of three.
I had a single interview which lasted for 1 hour. The interview consisted of machine learning and probability questions. We also reviewed my CV and my research experience. Overall, the difficulty level was average.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you compute the variance of the random variable Y = AX when A is a matrix and X is a vector?
I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Bengaluru) in Jun 2025
Interview
I was given the opportunity via campus placement .They took a direct interview without any Online Assessment . There were 3 people and initially they asked me questions on the projects and internship that i had mentioned in my resume . Also there were basic/ medium level questions regarding ML , DL and NLP . Also some questions on data structure and a coding question to check my logical aptitude .