Qualcomm Software Engineer interview experience

Then they asked how I would make the image two times bigger, and we talked through what it would look like after scaling and what different filtering approaches could produce a better-looking enlarged result.

The conversation didn’t feel like a big coding test. Instead, it was more about reasoning—how I’d translate the matrix representation into an image transformation and how I’d think about improving quality using filters.

I didn’t end up with an offer. Even so, that round was memorable because it tested my ability to think through an image-processing problem conceptually rather than just