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      System Level Test Engineer Interview

      14 Mar 2026
      Anonymous employee
      San Diego, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Mar 2026

      Interview

      3 round process 1st round 60 min technical 1 member 2nd round loop 100 min 3 members 3rd round HR 45 min 1 member First round was was more difficult than the rest and all rounds tested different domains like hardware equipment knowledge, programming, OS and Linux kernal based questions, Embedded system questions, scenario based questions, testing based questions

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Round 1 was heavily focused on: Yield analysis Determinism vs marginal silicon Production screening mindset Business impact & customer risk PVT and SLT prioritization Round 2 focused on: Embedded fundamentals Automation architecture Python & OOP Concurrency Debugging mindset Hardware-software interaction This are some of the questions which I remember You have 1 million chips and 50,000 fail the same CPU test case. Is it a test gap or silicon problem? If 50k fail and after retest half pass, what does that indicate? If a chip fails 2 out of 3 times, should we ship it to the customer? Who manufactures the chips? Are chips on the same wafer exactly identical? Is it possible some chips are completely bad and some are good? What can wafer sort catch? Why can’t wafer sort replace SLT? What is ADB? To what extent do you know ADB? What are core IPs in an SoC? What is IP? What type of test cases did you design? What challenges did you face? Explain SPI protocol. When would you choose UART vs SPI vs I2C? Describe the normal boot process and major milestones. What other lab equipment have you used besides oscilloscope?
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