Systems Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Qualcomm with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 70.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Systems Engineer roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 9 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 Systems Engineer according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 23%
Presentation: 15%
Skills test: 15%
Phone interview: 15%
Drug test: 8%
Personality test: 8%
Group panel interview: 8%
Background check: 8%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Nov 2014
Interview
two phone interview. process took 4 weeks. in the phone interview i was asked about my resume and some technical questions. the phone interviews were relatively easy . then I was invited to onsite interview with 5 senior managers. I was not able to answer all the questions. the position was more optimization engineer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
coherent bandwidth, coherent time, pilot pollution, degree of uptilt downtilt, which is better qpsk or qam?
I applied through university. I interviewed at Qualcomm in Nov 2025
Interview
round 1 - OA (campus)
round 2 - interview (which itself consisted of 2 tech rounds and 1 hr round)
Interview process was good, interviewers from company were too good
Technical questions on computer architecture based on core subjects like operating systems, computer networks they grilled specially on practical use cases and how data flow end to end.they asked about concept of pipeline and a bit about knowledge of microcontroller
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Computer architecture
Computer networks
Data structure based on linked list and tree
Qualcomm had come to my University for two roles – Hardware and Software. I applied for Hardware Role. There was one round of online tests and 2 interview rounds.
Round 1 (Online Test): It consisted of 3 sections with 20 questions in each section and 30 mins per section. You can travel through the questions in a particular section. The marking scheme was +1 for the correct answer and -0.25 for the wrong answer. Approximately 1500 people gave the test for both software and hardware role.