Candidates applying for Technical Writer roles take an average of 6 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Qualcomm overall takes an average of 11 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Qualcomm as a Technical Writer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 20%
Phone interview: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
Background check: 10%
Personality test: 10%
Skills test: 10%
Presentation: 10%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Boulder, CO) in Dec 2010
Interview
The interview process was really well tailored to select for critical thinking and problem solving rather than learned skills. The interviewers were clearly very technically skilled but still more concerned with creativity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was presented with a stack of one dollar bills and told to sort them, with no further explanation.
The process took +6 months, the hiring manager scheduled over 8 interviews during this period.
He has poor decision making skills. He kept staling and delaying the decision for over 4 months keeping people in the pool of candidate for no reason at sight.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General background questions during the first interviews to assess English and French level.
Technical interview with a random setup to write about a bug with essential information blurred
I applied through an employee referral and the process took 3+ weeks. Telephonic round was followed by Written test. More about DITA and technical concepts. the paper was lengthy with good technical questions.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Bengaluru) in Dec 2015
Interview
applicants apply to the company site and based on the resume candidates are slected for technical round that happenes either via telephone or you are called to the location and then a third round where face to face happens. The company is good for freshers experianced people stay away the pay is not competative and there is no onsite. Overall good for freshers.