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How much is the base salary offered by qualcomm for a new mtech college grad in india ? Any idea

I would be joining bangalore office this summers as Hardware Intern ,whats the conversion ratio for hardware roles and have people interning for 6 months (off-campus) generally tend to get a return offer? Anyone who is interning there atm in first half of 2026, can you help here and anyone who got a return offer?

I would be joining Qcomm soon. I am currently using Macbook Pro at my current company. What laptop options does Qcomm offer to the new hires?

I wanted to know does Qcom (especially India) provide any AI tools to employees working there, like claude, codex enterprise subscrp ?, as in my present company we have been given access to all major AI tools, and majority of the code is written by AI. I will be moving to qcom next week.

I have an interview on Monday. I heard that they dig deep into c++ internal working rather than the syntax. And last time they asked me dsa problems too. Where can I take the references for my 1st round of interview.

mobile chips keep getting stronger

but thermal limits seem to cap real-world performance

is cooling the real bottleneck now

if i do the first interview round today, what will be the minimum number of weeks that will take to complete all the interviews and receive the onboarding link. include all the wait time for interview results too.

the reason is, i joined a startup today and i received an interview confirmation call from qualcomm HR today itself.

so if it takes at least 3 months (preferably 6 months) to complete all the process then it won't be a hassle for me to give some reason at my startup to quit.

please help me

mobile GPUs are getting stronger every generation

but sustained workloads seem to expose limitations quickly

are we hitting a thermal ceiling

is there is anybody who has 3 hours of onterview but instead of 3hr only 1 hr happened it means negative ?

Hi everyone,

I'm a fresher (finishing my M.Tech) and I'm preparing for a Compiler Engineering interview at Qualcomm. I've mostly worked on building ML inference tools and benchmarking so far, so this will be my first time doing a pure compiler interview loop.

I collected some general insights:

• C/C++
• DSA
• Computer Architecture
• Compiler Internals (LLVM, SSA, optimizations)

I asked some Compilers Members from AMD, they told me:

1. Get experience with c++ and oops concepts.
   Understanding of llvm project
   Os, computer architecture , dsa
   2.basic tree questions for DSA (I think leetcode medium)
   Topo sort using bfs/dfs, lowest common ancestor, diameter of a tree, minimum spanning tree

Compiler questions were mostly based on optimisation techniques taught in undergraduate courses.

There were a lot of C/C++ questions related to pointers, types, program layout, and OOPs concepts. And some computer architecture and digital logic questions as well.

LLVM (managerial) was mostly about my previous experience and how did I perform testing but not a lot of emphasis was given on it.

Since I am a fresher, I want to make sure I am studying the right things and not getting lost in the weeds. I have a few questions for anyone who has been through this or works in the field:

1. LLVM depth: How deep do they expect a fresher to know LLVM? Should I focus heavily on writing custom optimization passes, or is understanding the general IR and backend enough?
2. Computer Architecture: Do they usually ask general concepts (caches, memory layouts, pipelines), or do I need to study very specific ARM/RISC-V architecture details?
3. DSA: Is it standard Leetcode-style questions, or do they focus more on compiler-heavy data structures like trees, graphs, and bit manipulation?
4. Compiler Design : how deep should i prepare ?

Any general tips, things to avoid, or resources would be really helpful. Thanks!

Hey guys, been working in embedded software development with 5 YOE. I will be getting call from Qualcomm( Hyderabad) for senior engineer role. I’ve always worked in MSMEs, this is my first time into an MNC. My current CTC is just over 14LPA. How should I negotiate the salary and what would be their initial offering? Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Recently I interviewed for a Software role at Qualcomm. The interview was virtual. In total I had to go through 5 technical rounds and there was 1 director round at the end. They asked me c++ questions, leetcode medium problems, and some concurrency related questions. They went fairly deep with the questions. In the entire process the communication was very bad. For any update, I had to communicate with the HR. They never updated me with the results. All these rounds were scheduled when I contacted the HR about the update of the previous round. The response I would get was that the team has scheduled another round and you'll get the invite. So I went through every round like this. Eventually I completed the last round(6th one). Nobody contacted me. So I contacted the HR(like I was doing after every previous round). The HR told me the response wasn't positive from the last round. The HR said the team thought I wasn't a good fit for the role(If you require 6 interview rounds to check if someone is fit for the role or not, then you are simply bad at the job). At that point I just wanted to get over this torture of a process to be really honest. Reading that message was so upsetting for me. There are more insights about this whole situation, but they're better not to be made public. Anyone applying for roles at Qualcomm India, this is the stuff you'll go through.

Hello folks.

I will be joining Qualcomm Hyderabad (Commerzone office) in a week, and am planning to do all logistics myself.

I am the only one in my family (male), and thus looking for a hassle-free accommodation. Would thus prefer a furnished single-occupancy PG, with 0 issues on electricity, water and wifi fronts.

Any recommendations for such PGs, nearby to Commerzone office?

Many thanks in advance !

Hi everyone,

I recently got a recruiter screening call for a Machine Learning Engineer role at Qualcomm, and I wanted to understand what the interview process looks like.

If anyone has gone through this process (especially for ML/AI roles), could you please share

Number of rounds and their structure, Type of technical interviews (coding, ML theory) Difficulty level and what topics to focus on and any tips or things you wish you had prepared better

My friend recently secured an hardware engineering intern at qualcomm last week. When wil the company sent the offer letter?

I AM PREPARING for a Qualcomm Interview.

Background:

4 years experience into low level driver development in automotive.

HAL layer, MCAL layer , CDD basically worked mostly on embedded C.

What to expect in interview for sr engineer role.

Note:

Basic C , array, string linkedlist stack queue this much i am preparing

What else?

Hey everyone! I’ll be joining Qualcomm this summer as an intern in Santa Clara and I’m really excited. I was wondering if anyone here has interned at the Santa Clara location before—how is the coporate housing situation, and how far is it typically from the office? Also, how’s public transportation around that area?

If anyone else is going to be in Santa Clara this summer, I’d love to connect!

I am dev,

Received a offer of non dev role,

On offer letter mentioned sr engineer- xxxx

What it will show up in payslip?

Will just show up sr engineer or it will show as sr engineer - xxxx???

If i switch after my period in Qualcomm, i will try for dev roles..........

Background - I've interviewed at Qualcomm around 5 times (rejected multiple times for not having relevant experience), applied to over 30+ applications via job portal and mailing HRs from LinkedIn posts.

I'm not getting any interview call even after applying for a relevant role with Referral!

Does Qualcomm blacklist candidates for too many applications/ interviews? If yes, will changing email ids work? What might be the reason for this?

Will Qualcomm provide accommodation for 2 weeks if we are relocating.

Currently I am moving from Bangalore to Hyderabad.

Thanks in advance!