Hi Guys,
Do you know if qualcomm ghosts candidates even after 9/10 interview score ? Since the interview was highly technical and analytical the answers can be verified and it seems 99% were all correct. All interview round was as best as it can be .
No reply from hiring team or HR in 3 weeks. Should i just assume i have been rejected ? Or any managers here can shed some light in terms of they maybe interviewing more people or position can get cancelled ?
@hiring manager – its also a mistake to think all qualcomm interviewer are awesome and know everything they asked. Most of the question seems to be off internet or text book and still they get confused . In fact from what i have heard, qualcomm employees who go to interview at other companies have worst performance ever compared to others.
I am guessing its people like you who are reducing qualcomm quality by hiring wrong people. :)
Don't make the mistake of thinking you gave the "right answers" because the questions are technical. Interviewers are looking at many other aspects of your character. Personality traits and teamwork count for a whole lot more than raw technical knowledge. Qualcomm does not "ghost" candidates after interviews. If you s—ed, they will promptly and politely tell you "no thank you". If you were great, the interview team would have let you know that right away to keep you interested. You got neither. My guess is that your interview performance was mediocre.
Sometimes it gets held in the routing pipeline, for example the person who needs to sign for finance is on travel. The req escalates to his/her manager, who may not have a clue and the req sits there until it escalates again. I've personally tracked the routing of my reqs most times, and I've called people holding the routing even at 9PM.
Don't wait for more than 3 weeks, just ask, and be clear about what you want to know ( i.e are you hired or are you a backup or is there a hold up waiting for reqs etc). You have nothing to lose. If you don't get a response from the hiring manager at all. move on.
The reqs were created after the apple settlement. Later ftc came while reqs were in pipeline. You still got interviewed but your hiring manager is probably having second thoughts as there may be layoffs in the near future.
Reach out to your interviewer if possible. There have been cases where the HR sits on it forever without the hiring manager knowing about it.
Another one bites the dust.
This is not the common practice. Reach out to the hiring manager or general HR.
When I was there ( a year or so ago ) we NEVER knew how long it would take HR to get an offer out to a candidate. By the time that the department and every VP in the company signed off on the offer, it still had to get generated. Personally, I would tell the hiring manager ( if you have contact info ) and the HR contact that you have a competing offer with a time limit, that you really would prefer Qualcomm ( if you really would, that's another question I won't ask ) . Very good chance that the hiring HR person is a contractor, who probably doesn't give a s*** one way or the other, or is already gone, and you might have fallen into the cracks. Don't be shy about asking what's going on, its a legit question. Think about what it means that a company let's you dangle for 3 or more weeks. Hmmm.