Technical phone screen. Was asked typical questions relating to my resume, why Qualcomm? If you are currently already doing a similar job why change? Was asked typical OS questions, like: What happens during a context switch? What is a PCB? What are some of the things in the Linux task_struct. Q) Write algorithm to find missing element in array. For example int array[5] = {1, 2, 0, 3, 4}; this array should contain # from 1 to 5. # 5 is missing. Q) How would you write a mem alloc routine that is 32 byte aligned. Q) How would you figure out if the stack grows up or down. A) char *ptr; printf(" 0x%lx \n",ptr); ptr++; printf(" 0x%lx \n", ptr); The guy was a little hard to understand at times.

The Interview process consisted of a couple of phone screen interviews. I was asked questions based on the projects that I had done and basic concepts related to low level systems programming and microcontrollers/microprocessors. I was also asked a couple of programming questions which were mainly based on pointers.