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      Modem Firmware Test Engineer Interview

      19 Mar 2013
      Anonymous employee
      San Diego, CA
      Accepted offer
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Feb 2013

      Interview

      Telephonic Interview: Initially you will get an email from concerned Staffing team regarding the telephonic interview. Depending on your availability you can schedule an interview within the next week. Onsite: If you did good job on your telephonic call, you will be intimated about the onsite interview within the next 2 weeks. Again, if you get selected for onsite, the scheduling process will be the same as Telephonic.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Most questions would be based on your resume. They will concetrate what you did and not what they did :). So, please know in & out about your resume. Also, Please do not stuff your resume just for the sake of getting an interview call. Even if it did, it may be an issue if you did not answer their question on that topic. It is better to put stuff on which you are confident. For me, most of my telephonic interview had questions from Wireless Communications, Digital Communications, Random Signal Theory(Not in depth, for ex: How is a wireless channel distributed? why is it distributed like that? How does it's auto-correlation looks like? what are the other models available? Suggestions: Be good in Wireless Communications: Multipath, Coherence time, coherence bandwidth, time diversity, receiver diversity, doppler spread, WSS-US model, Rayleigh Fading, Rician Fading, Diversity schemes, Equalizers, OFDM, and the projects related to it. Digital Communication: Modulation schemes, BER, Basic Communication block diagram, etc. Last, but not least, in all these interviews there is no one-on-one answer. So, knowing the definitions related to this topics will not help. Try to related and study. A simple question, I would like to quote here, to say, how will their expectation be like. For Ex: Compare OFDM and CDMA. Hint you have is: With Shannon's channel thm, try to explain this. So, the interviewer is expecting you to apply a concept to two different technologies. Ex: Next question: How OFDM mitigates ISI? How CDMA mititgates ISI. (You must give an in-depth idea) Ex: Match Filters. How CDMA uses it. (Please go through match filter in-depth. This idea is used in CDMA Rake Reception. Please know, how it is getting used there. Also, Match filtering, is a kind of process that you can use for Channel estimation. Knowing the call processing procedure for any technology will also help. Please ,be sure with atleast one technology in depth. Last Suggestion: When the interviewer asks a question on a topic that you know well, start answering him that question with depth, so that your further questions will be based on it. So, this is like driving interviewer to an area that you are familiar. Else, it will be like he is trying to ask you different questions to know what you know. Best!
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      Modem Firmware Test Engineer Interview

      17 Feb 2020
      Anonymous employee
      San Diego, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2020

      Interview

      I applied on the Qualcomm careers site. Almost ten days after applying, I got an email from the HR that I will be contacted by a member of the team that this position was with for a phone screen. One week later, a senior engineer from the team called me and asked some technical questions about wireless communication and my past experience. The next day, I got an email inviting me for an onsite interview at Qualcomm San Diego headquarters. At the site, I was interviewed by four senior engineers from the team. One week later, the HR made an offer to me via a phone call. For this interview, one needs to have a strong understanding of wireless communication and signal processing concepts. Intermediate programming skills in any object oriented language, preferably Python would be good enough.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      What is cyclic prefix in OFDM? How does it correct ISI?
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      Question 2

      How would you correct channel noise caused due to multiple paths?
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      Question 3

      Describe LTE architecture and call flow. What are authentication protocols used in LTE?
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      Question 4

      Without using built in functions, compare two strings and determine if they are anagrams of each other. Another coding question was the commonly asked fizzbuzz programming problem.
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