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      RF Hardware Applications Engineer Interview

      Sep 27, 2020
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Santa Clara, CA

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      RF Hardware Applications Engineer Interview

      May 3, 2013
      Anonymous employee
      San Diego, CA
      Accepted offer

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      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Qualcomm (Santa Clara, CA) in Sep 2020

      Interview

      Applied online through the website of the Qualcomm, then received an email within 5 days of application for the technical phone interview with the hiring manager. Then received an email to schedule the timing of the phon interview

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      SNR, noise figure, antenna gain, asked an SNR sum on the call it was difficult, what I work on currently radio receiver-transmitter, phase noise, sensitivity. Too much technical in-depth technical questions
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      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Mar 2013

      Interview

      Initial phone screen around 30 minutes. Full day of onsite interviews testing basic RF system level concepts and behavioral questions.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Everything was pretty straightforward. Its a customer engineering role so they also check your ability to communicate well.
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      2
      • RF Hardware Applications 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 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for RF Hardware Applications Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 2 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 RF Hardware Applications Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  50%

        One on one interview:  25%

        Presentation:  25%

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

        1. Software Engineer(976) ;
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        3. Engineer(811) ;
        4. Staff Engineer(622) ;
        5. Senior Software Engineer(544) ;
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        8. Intern(176) ;
        9. Associate Engineer(137) ;
        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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