Company interviews / Qualcomm
Qualcomm interview practice
2 Qualcomm roles have been listed on giveinterview since August 2026, 2 open now. Each one comes with an AI interview that runs the loop below: a 10-minute voice screen, then 2 rounds (coding, then behavioral). The topics that come up most are Assembly, C, C/C++, C++, Communication protocols. 51 coding questions are known to come up in Qualcomm interviews (25 easy, 20 medium, 6 hard), 9 of them in the last six months. The most common topics are Array, Two Pointers, String, Linked List.
The interview loop
Most common across Qualcomm roles on giveinterview.
- Gate 0 · Voice screen10 min
- Gate 1 · Coding45 min
- Gate 2 · Behavioral45 min
What the interviews cover
Skills and topics, with the number of Qualcomm roles that list each one.
- Assembly1
- C1
- C/C++1
- C++1
- Communication protocols1
- Computer architecture1
- Data structures1
- Device drivers1
- Good understanding of OS concepts1
- Javascript1
- Linux Drivers1
- Linux Internals1
- Linux Kernel Development1
- Linux/UNIX1
- Multimedia technologies1
Coding questions Qualcomm asks
From public company-tagged interview question lists. Most recent and most frequent first.
- Array18
- Two Pointers13
- String12
- Linked List9
- Dynamic Programming8
- Math8
- Divide and Conquer6
- Recursion5
- Hash Table5
- Bit Manipulation5
- Sorting5
- Design4
| Question | Difficulty | Asked recently |
|---|---|---|
| Reverse Nodes in k-Group | Hard | Yes |
| Number of Islands | Medium | Yes |
| Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters | Medium | Yes |
| Two Sum | Easy | Yes |
| LRU Cache | Medium | Yes |
| Reverse String | Easy | Yes |
| Trapping Rain Water | Hard | Yes |
| Palindrome Number | Easy | Yes |
| Peak Index in a Mountain Array | Medium | Yes |
| String Compression III | Medium | — |
| Reverse Linked List | Easy | — |
| Rectangle Overlap | Easy | — |
| Move Zeroes | Easy | — |
| Power of Two | Easy | — |
| Reverse Bits | Easy | — |
| Majority Element | Easy | — |
| Linked List Cycle | Easy | — |
| Rotate Image | Medium | — |
| Valid Parentheses | Easy | — |
| 3Sum | Medium | — |
| Count the Number of Fair Pairs | Medium | — |
| Count Array Pairs Divisible by K | Hard | — |
| Design Circular Queue | Medium | — |
| Implement Queue using Stacks | Easy | — |
| Climbing Stairs | Easy | — |
Roles
| Role | Where | Gates | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU Software Engineer | On-site · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | 3 | Open |
| 1 year Internship_SW_CDC | On-site · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | 2 | Open |
Practice a Qualcomm interview
Take the same AI interview a Qualcomm candidate would face: you talk it through while you code, and get a scorecard with what earned each score. Three single-question interviews a day are free.