I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Bengaluru) in May 2017
Interview
Had a telephonic round, followed by F2F few days later. The F2F had four rounds each about 1 hour. Good variety of questions asked touching basic C, Linux Kernel and Multimedia.
However, after a full day for interviews onsite I would honestly appreciate if the recruiter comes back with a feedback, even if it's negative. I sent four reminders to ask for a feedback desperately. No response !
It was a 5-step interview. Four of them were technical and the last one was with HR. The first two interviews were conducted with the Ireland team. The interviewers were great guys. They checked my basic C language and software design knowledge in those interviews. The last two interviews were conducted with US-based engineering managers. They asked both behavioral and technical questions, as well as a coding question in the last part of the interview. I suggest doing some practice on LeetCode before taking the interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a task scheduler on the bare metal environment.
It is first round with HM. HM digging deep on my resume bullets. HM mainly asked behavioral questions for each bullets. Overall experience is great. We had great conversations. one pseudo coding on parallel programming.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Noida) in Dec 2025
Interview
They gave no idea about overall process. Just calling to scheduling rounds. No alignment discussions. Just kept on taking technical rounds without sharing any details of role. And post all rounds gave an offer way below my current compensation. Overall wasted my time & I would recommended anyone in my network to go with them.
4 technical rounds were there. Mostly general - DSA, sorting & searching algos, some hard leetcode, system design & resume deep dive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sorting & searching algos, Hard leetcode, resume deep dive
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Qualcomm with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 65% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 53 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 53 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 34%
One on one interview: 27%
Skills test: 17%
Group panel interview: 6%
Background check: 5%
Presentation: 5%
Personality test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 1%
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