Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un'agenzia di reclutamento personale. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Qualcomm (Noida) nel mese di apr 2022
Colloquio
Horrible, humiliating, not good at all..interviewers just showing we entered in qualcomm after surviving in startups. How could you directly get into this and sot with us.
Interviewer came from service based company and was not able to ask questions in english.
It seems they are frustrated like hell.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
PD flow
Synthesis flow
Power aware design
About schooling grades
Humiliation
4 interviewers.
Basics of physical design /cpu architecture/experience based questions/tcl scripting/timing analysis/block closure /techniques/previous wrk exp/ drc analysis related questions/ tool related questions/ example
Based questions “how would you solve this?” Kind of questions
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Explain the challenges involved in previous tapeout
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Qualcomm (San Diego, CA)
Colloquio
Application via Qualcomm careers or referral.
Recruiter may reach out for basic screening:
Your background, tools used (ICC2, PrimeTime, RedHawk, etc.)
Areas of expertise: floorplanning, CTS, routing, STA, DRC, EMIR, etc.
Experience with multi-VDD, ECOs, hierarchical designs, colored flows, etc.
Technical Phone Interviews (1–2 rounds)
Each round typically lasts 45–60 minutes.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Walk me through how you approach floorplanning for a block.
How do you handle placement of macros and standard cells around them?
What considerations go into designing a power grid?
How do you handle multi-VDD domains or level shifters?
What are tie-high and tie-low cells and where are they used?
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Qualcomm (Chennai) nel mese di gen 2024
Colloquio
started with intro and ended with thankyou. they asked digital electronics basics/ physical design flow, sta concepts, some questions from signoff stage. second round was directly they given marker and asked me to solve sta related violation.
