Software Engineer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Qualcomm with 2.8 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 62.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer Intern roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 25 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 Software Engineer Intern according to 25 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 34%
One on one interview: 28%
Skills test: 25%
Background check: 6%
Personality test: 3%
Group panel interview: 3%
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I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) in Apr 2013
Interview
I applied online, received an email to schedule a phone interview, and the manager I worked for was the one who phone interviewed and hired me. I had other offer deadlines approaching, so I called him back the next day and asked if the decision could be made quickly. The next morning, I got the call getting the position.
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Extremely easy interview, asked basic programming concepts such focusing on object oriented design (Describe OOP, what is a class, what is a mutex, etc.).
45 minutes interview in their site in Hod Hasharon. give me an api and asked me to explain what i have understand from it. after that I asked to write a function from this api. Then bit manipulation questions.
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Question 1
give me an api and asked me to explain what i have understand from it. after that I asked to write a function from this api. Then bit manipulation questions.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Qualcomm (New Delhi) in May 2026
Interview
There was one group discussion round and one interview round initially, but the final selected candidates had to go through two interview rounds. The interviews were of medium difficulty, while the group discussion round was relatively easy overall.
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GD was on whether AI is helpful or harmful for the learning process
Interview started with LC1155, Frog Jump and questions based on resume + genai
Not bad, easy and medium leetcode questions. Answered correctly but didn't get moved forward still. Behavioral questions about resume as well. Two total interviews both had technical and behavioral sections