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      Wireless Firmware Engineer Interview

      Sep 26, 2016
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2016

      Interview

      Received an email for invitation for telephonic interview. The interview was 1.5 hours long. He started with "tell me something about yourself", then he asked a situational logical questions based on the wifi application but it did not require any knowledge about Wifi, it was more based on algorithm design based question. He asked how much comfortable are you in C programming and Why you want to work for this position.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Tell us C- storage classes, type qualifiers?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Write a c program to determine the Endianess of a microprocessor.
      Answer question

      Qualcomm interviews FAQs

      • Wireless Firmware Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Qualcomm with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Wireless Firmware Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Qualcomm overall takes an average of 22 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Qualcomm as a Wireless Firmware Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Skills test:  50%

        Phone interview:  50%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

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        8. Intern(176) ;
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        10. Staff Software Engineer(134) ;
        11. Interim Engineering Intern(124) ;
        12. Hardware Engineer(116) ;
        13. Systems Engineer(75) ;
        14. Senior Hardware Engineer(68) ;
        15. Software Engineer(Internship)(65) .


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