The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Apr 2012
Interview
After the my technical Phone interview which took almost a month i received an invitation for the on-site interview at San Diego, CA, followed by interview dates available & choice followed by confirmation and procedure for purchasing the airline tickets & hotel reservation. Received Interviewers names 2 days ahead on the scheduled date. I had 7 professionals interviewed me starting with HR and remaining from different departments (Technologies) of modem testing. Received interview schedule & locations of the interviewers from HR. The interview lasted for 7 hrs each 45 minutes & remaining transport (Shuttle Service Available) between building within the Qualcomm campus area & Lunch All the travel expenses taken care by Qualcomm. Overall it was good experience of having multiple interviews and you can also learn a lot. Practice makes man perfect. All the questions were based out of my resume & experience. Make sure you are perfect on the concepts mentioned in your resume.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Day to day activities in your previous projects?
most critical Issues faced and how were they resolved in your previous projects?
Channel Mapping from R99?
Initial UE Network acquisition process after power ON?
Compress mode?
Handoffs?
Calculate UARFCN?
Call Flow?
RSCP & EcNo?
How to reduce pilot pollution?
SNR?
Power Control?
How to calculate Pathloss?
Blind Hanover?
Reasons for High RSSI alarms on Node B and how to resolve?
Reasons for Low throughput on UL & DL?
BLER?
Tilt Recommendations?
coverage relations?
Layer Management Strategy?
modulation techniques?
multipath & rake receiver?
All UE Events like e1a?
UE Categories?
idle mode behaviour & channel used?
paging?
DRX Cycle?
how many times UE measurement reports sent to CN
OFDMA?
difference between WCDMA & LTE?
3 rounds--
1. Written test
2. Technical round
3. Technical round
Don't know after this as i am not able to cross 2nd round as interviewer clock stuck at my research work and innovation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They constantly ask me about my research. If i did some research work or not during my college time.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Hyderābād) in Feb 2020
Interview
First a online test was conducted by Hire Pro. Which contains 3 sections. 1st Aptitude, 2nd Coding, 3rd digital or communications. I have cleared the test and called for a face to face interview at Hyderabad. To and Fro flight and Cab tickets were provided by them. They are looking for a pure wireless communications guy and i am from electrical background with little vlsi knowledge. He asked me to explain my M.tech project and interrupted me whenever he got some doubt. After 45min of interview he told that i can not be a good fit in this role as this job role requires high wireless communication knowledge.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give me full explanation about your M.tech project.
I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Durgapur, West Bengal) in Jul 2019
Interview
It was an on-campus hiring process in NIT. The process comprises of Online Test, 2 Technical Interview and one HR Interview. Around 50 students applied for Online Test. They have selected 10 for Interviews and finally selected 3 students. In Technical Interview they asked about programming questions from C, C++, theoretical Questions from Analog Communication, Digital Communication, Wireless Communication, Antenna Theory, Digital Electronics.
Interview questions [6]
Question 1
What is fading . What signal characteristics change in fading and how to recover them.(Wireless Communication)
