r/qualcomm

For senior software engineer role:

India vs USA
BASE ?
RSU ?
Joining bonus?
Relocation bonus ?

Is Engineer SDE2? Because we skip a rank and directly move to Senior Engineer. So this should mean that Engineer is SDE2?

Hello, I got a verbal offer for a role in Qualcomm about ONE MONTH ago. CTC discussion happened and I was asked to apply to a req on their careers site. Have not heard back from the HR again, no response when I try contacting HR. Is this normal? Can I assume I am not getting the job? Please help.

Hi all! I just wanted to know how long a Qualcomm referral for Software Engineer positions remains valid. Is it valid for 3 months or 6 months?

Hi everyone,

I completed all the interview rounds for a Software Engineer role at Qualcomm about 5–6 weeks ago. After the interviews, the recruiter reached out about another opening within the same team and asked me to apply through the careers portal using the Job ID they shared personally. Since then, my application has been showing "In Process."
Whenever I've followed up, I've been told that the process is currently awaiting internal approvals before moving forward.

Has anyone been in a similar situation?

How long did it take for you to receive a final decision?

Is this a normal part of Qualcomm's hiring process, or could it mean my profile is on hold/sidelined?

Would really appreciate hearing about your experiences.

I know we signed up for the volatility when we joined, but watching the recent slide in QCOM has been pretty painful. For those of us who joined recently, it’s a rough "welcome to the team." I spent a lot of time planning around those grants, and seeing them just... melt away over the last couple of weeks is definitely hard to watch.
It feels like every bit of momentum we had from the Investor Day announcements just evaporated. Is there any real light at the end of the tunnel here, or are we in for a long grind? Honestly, just looking for a bit of perspective from those of you who have been through these cycles before.

I’ve applied to a handful of analyst/PM roles in San Diego within the last couple of months and have only heard back from one role and then got ghosted.

Are people getting responses? How’s the hiring process for these roles?

Hey, actually I have been offered Engineer role while exp is 2.7+, and standard procedure for promotion is generally to server atleast 2 years. What to do? Since otherwise I will be near 5 years experience and still not be a Senior Engineer

Just saw a post asking about which laptop you get in the India office. Which laptop do you get in San Diego?

Has anyone heard back from qualcomm after verbal confirmation of 11 month internship. The interview happened around april, still no confirmation from their part.

Hi everyone,

I am likely to receive offer for a Staff Engineer role at Qualcomm India.

I'm trying to understand the current market compensation so I can quote a reasonable expected salary.

I'd appreciate any recent data points on:

• Base salary (fixed)
• Initial RSUs and annual refresh grants
• Joining bonus
• Total compensation

If you've recently joined Qualcomm or negotiated a Staff Engineer offer, I'd really appreciate it if you could share your compensation breakdown.

Thanks!

DO they give us an option to choose brand of laptop we use for work in qualcomm before joining?

Generally what model do the employees use? is macbook allowed?

I have offer for design verification from QC for the GPU dv team and Intel for DDR DV team. I have experience in ddr for 4 yrs but now i looking at the future growth and tech which one will be better for the growth and longterm future perspective in industry.

Anyone is having experience in both do let me know your views.

Anyone interviewed recently with Qualcomm PMIC team? I completed my full loop and portal now shows “Position Closed,” but no HR update yet. Does this usually mean rejected/filled, or just closed to new applicants while results are pending?

HR not responding at all, but I’m pretty sure my loop went well and also with HM.

I heard this team is of about 200 members.

I am from Tier 3 pursuing B.E. in electronics and computer science engineering. I am starting now to focus on Career seriously can someone guide me like real working engineers from qualcomm, TI , SAMSUNG Like really in need for job .

I have an interview coming up for a GPU Driver Software Engineer position and was wondering if anyone here has gone through the interview process recently.

I'm mainly trying to get an idea of what the interview(s) is like. Is it mostly:

• C/C++ coding questions?
• Graphics API questions (Vulkan/OpenGL/DirectX)?
• GPU architecture and graphics pipeline?
• Operating systems / driver concepts?
• Algorithms/LeetCode-style problems?

I've been working on my own Vulkan renderer, so I'm comfortable talking about graphics, but I'm not sure how deep Qualcomm expects candidates to go into GPU hardware or driver internals for the first interview.

If you've interviewed for this role (or a similar graphics/driver role at Qualcomm), I'd appreciate any advice on:

• Topics that came up
• Anything you wish you had studied beforehand
• The overall difficulty and format

Thanks!