I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hyderābād) in Apr 2025
Interview
There were 3 rounds .
First round - Tell me about yourself and some questions regarding my current role and past projects. Then fundamental of OS and C like deadlocks, IPC mechanism, threads, shared memory, structured padding, malloc vs calloc, wild pointer, segmentation, paging vs swapping, friend class etc.
Then interviewer asked to wait for 5 mins in the call for the next round
Second round - Again introduction then asked few OS basic and then asked to write code for synchronization of 2 threads in C
After this last round happened which was taken by manager: He asked about past experiences and explained in brief about the role for which they are hiring. He asked if you have thought or done any innovative project.
Even though my technical went very well, I think the manager was not very happy with my answers so I didn't get offer :)
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
