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.

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.