Qualcomm·Software Engineer

Qualcomm Software Engineer interview experience

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CorkPosted Jul 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview process started with a technical round with a senior embedded engineer.

The conversation began with a walkthrough of my CV and then shifted into OS and C++ fundamentals, including topics like DMA, RTOS, synchronization, and the differences between const and volatile (and when const volatile makes sense). We also covered signed vs unsigned behavior and virtual vs pure virtual functions. After about 45 minutes of discussion, we moved into coding.

The coding problem felt like a classic list-intersection task similar to merge-intervals style reasoning, where I had to compute an intersection across two lists. I got thrown off by a few test cases and it took longer

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