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Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Hitakshi Patel

posted on 25 Nov 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Nov 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

It's a hackerrank coding test

Round 2 - Coding Test 

It's an interview and coding test on Hacker rank

Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Previous projects
  • Q2. Behavioral question

Top Qualcomm Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
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Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
More than 8 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jul 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Op amps , negative and positive feedback
  • Q2. Timing circuits and digital circuits

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Concentrate on Electronic topics especially Timing circuits and digital electronics

Analog Design Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Add capacitor parallel to one resistor and tell frequency response
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Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Krishna Naik

posted on 31 Jul 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jul 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

It was hackerrank coding + basic output questions

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Questions about computer architecture
  • Q2. Questions about Computer networks

Top Qualcomm Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What is Min-Cut placement algorithm? Given some block sizes, use the algorithm to place them on a given chip area
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Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. ❖ If a team member is unable to carry out his work, he is doing it repetitively, how would you handle it?, would you like to work only on lifing of components, or would you be ready to shift to other departments?
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ml engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 14 Jul 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jul 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Pseudo Code for Linked List and Heap Sort based questions

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain the architecture of a Transformer.
  • Ans. 

    Transformer is a neural network architecture based on self-attention mechanism.

    • Consists of encoder and decoder layers

    • Uses self-attention mechanism to weigh input tokens

    • Employs positional encoding to capture token positions

    • Introduced in the 'Attention is All You Need' paper by Vaswani et al.

    • Popularly used in natural language processing tasks

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Why is Resnet so famous for?

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ml engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. How to evaluate regression models? explain r squared and adjusted r squared and difference between them
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jul 2022. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - screening 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. They will check your basic knowledge that are you good at basics ?
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Asked about my current job profile and networking concepts.
Round 4 - Coding Test 

Operating system, C langauge and DSA quastions.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be strong with your basics. Technical Skills: C, C++, OS, DSA, Basic Networking

Embedded Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. What is the difference between sensors and actuators
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IT Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 1 Jul 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Jul 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basics of linux in Sude and REDHAT os
  • Q2. Deep-level analysis of the process
  • Ans. 

    Deep-level analysis involves thorough examination of the process to identify underlying issues and improve efficiency.

    • Identify key components of the process

    • Analyze each component in detail to understand its function and impact

    • Use data and metrics to measure performance and identify areas for improvement

    • Consider external factors that may influence the process

    • Develop strategies to optimize the process based on findings

  • Answered by AI

IT Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. What is active directory ? Role of DNS server ? Difference between RAM & ROM ? Knowledge on installation of various softwares and Drivers ? Layers of OSI model ? TCP/IP Configuration ? Knowledge on various types of Networking devices ? ... read more
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Jul 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

C programming questions

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Circular buffer problems
  • Ans. 

    Circular buffer is a data structure that uses a fixed-size buffer as if it were connected end-to-end.

    • Circular buffer is also known as a ring buffer or cyclic buffer.

    • It is often used in computer programming to implement a queue that needs constant time for adding or removing elements.

    • When the buffer is full, new data overwrites the oldest data in a circular fashion.

    • Circular buffers are efficient for streaming data appli...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Implement malloc
Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Salary discussion
  • Q2. Role discussion

Skills evaluated in this interview

Top Qualcomm Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
View answer (209)

Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
View answer (208)

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Jun 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Binary tree(convert BT to min heap), dbms, networking questions, what happens when you type google.com in browser.
  • Q2. Swap 2 nos without using 3rd variable
  • Ans. 

    Swapping 2 numbers without using a third variable

    • Use arithmetic operations to swap the values

    • Addition and subtraction can be used to swap the values

    • XOR operation can also be used to swap the values

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Prison break question, can be found in leetcode discussion section

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - prepare well, i am just typing to cross fifty character limit

Top Qualcomm Software Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Minimum Fountains Activation Problem In this problem, you have a one-dimensional garden of length 'N'. Each position from 0 to 'N' has a fountain that can provide water to the garden up to a certain range. Thus, there are 'N' + 1 fountains ... read more
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Software Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Maximum Subarray Sum Problem Statement Given an array of integers, determine the maximum possible sum of any contiguous subarray within the array. Example: Input: array = [34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86] Output: 137 Explanation: The maximum sum is... read more
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Intern Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 5 Jan 2023

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
Not Selected
Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

The questions consisted of aptitude and since iam from cs, cs core subjects.

Round 2 - Interview 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. The interview was of 30 min. It started off with introducing ourselves and getting into projects. And core questions along with dsa .
  • Q2. What is threading, how many threads a process contains?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Learn the core concepts of your subjects. OS questions regarding threading were asked for me. And a DSA question was asked the question being implement the paging table using data structures.

Intern Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Case. There is a housing society “The wasteful society”, you collect all the household garbage and sell it to 5 different businesses. Determine what price you will pay to the society members in Rs/kg, given you want to make a profit of 20% ... read more
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Apr 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. String manipulation coding question
  • Q2. Dbms, os fundamentals
Round 2 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Map, string DSA question
  • Q2. Implement hashmap
  • Ans. 

    Implement hashmap data structure in software development

    • Use an array to store key-value pairs

    • Implement a hash function to map keys to array indices

    • Handle collisions by using separate chaining or open addressing

    • Support operations like put, get, and remove

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Sql, oop concepts

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Focus on basics

Skills evaluated in this interview

Top Qualcomm Software Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Minimum Fountains Activation Problem In this problem, you have a one-dimensional garden of length 'N'. Each position from 0 to 'N' has a fountain that can provide water to the garden up to a certain range. Thus, there are 'N' + 1 fountains ... read more
View answer (1)

Software Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Maximum Subarray Sum Problem Statement Given an array of integers, determine the maximum possible sum of any contiguous subarray within the array. Example: Input: array = [34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86] Output: 137 Explanation: The maximum sum is... read more
View answer (42)

Qualcomm Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Qualcomm interview?
Qualcomm interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Qualcomm interview process are Technical, One-on-one Round and Coding Test.
How to prepare for Qualcomm interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Qualcomm. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Qualcomm expect are Python, Staffing, Computer science, C++ and Debugging.
What are the top questions asked in Qualcomm interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Qualcomm interview -

  1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a...read more
  2. Given an array A[n], write a C program to find P and Q (P>Q) such that A[P] - A...read more
  3. How many ways would one arrange sets of coloured balls, the first set all red, ...read more
How long is the Qualcomm interview process?

The duration of Qualcomm interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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