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.

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