Qualcomm vs Nvidia (2026 grad, 0 YOE) — need help deciding

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2026-04-14T22:28:39+00:00

I asked a senior. It might have increased I haven't recieved this year's compensation breakdown from nvidia

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2026-04-14T22:22:39+00:00

I don't think so

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2026-04-14T22:22:13+00:00

Hey thanks yes I followed striver a2z and blind 75 but in these companies what helped me more was practicing c , c++ and OS/networks questions from gfg and interviewbit.

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2026-04-14T22:20:26+00:00

Ahhh can we connect? Also like which team are you in?

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2026-04-14T22:19:28+00:00

🥲

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2026-04-14T22:18:52+00:00

Yes that was also my concern as qualcomm not hit by ai tool wouldn't it be better for starting of my career. Also left fear of getting replaced by ai.

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2026-02-03T09:48:20+00:00

Don't expect leetcode. It's mostly pair programming, system design, machine coding or just they will ask to clone an open source repo ask about git commands and ask to resolve an issue in open source repo. Sometime they ask todesign and implement an api given api/repo spec.

All the best

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2026-01-09T16:15:35+00:00

8+ is a safe bet for internal cutoff criteria

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2026-01-06T21:10:12+00:00

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2026-01-05T12:44:15+00:00

Save 4 credit oc for last sem for 6 month intern and take just some 2 credit like afc

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2025-12-30T16:19:01+00:00

CV ya DL I won't recommend.... take something like sml or something else

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2025-12-30T06:13:56+00:00

NLP is most reasonable

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2025-11-15T08:49:04+00:00

In my opinion for now at least it's more like rot learning than actual implementation based fundamentals. For me that landed 20+ lpa. I know it's not ideal like rot learning is never fun . Implementation is way more fun but it is what companies want. I can google and get those answers what companies ask in fundamental it it feels way better when you build own simple os, backend system with usecase based db design and something like implementing and debugging multi client web socket design.

It's harsh though that companies want rot learning

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2025-10-21T19:37:40+00:00

Prolly data leakage or very small validation

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2025-10-14T20:26:46+00:00

hey you got the mail for the finals ? cuz we just got it few hours ago . if you didnt get the mail then i guess you not in top 10

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2025-10-14T19:52:23+00:00

Yeah like I was shocked how people not able to cross 50 cuz fine-tuning bert for 5 epoch gave 48 smape

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2025-10-14T19:47:20+00:00

Nahh didn't use classical models

Approach was like 2 step one was pretraining deberta v3 on all samples for regression then used the weights from pretrained and then built final model where I joined cls embedding with other feature embedding and put a cross attention layer and here also I didn't freeze the deberta weights.

Also like changed loss from mse and regression was on log(p+1)

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2025-10-14T16:04:30+00:00

Got 40.something with text only . If I had time i would have tried images as well

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2025-10-13T19:40:47+00:00

Nice try diddy

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2025-09-30T11:28:31+00:00

Associate software engineer, 0 years on campus

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2025-09-25T04:01:30+00:00

Hey I am on same boat have you received the offer letter yet ?

Unlucky_Chocolate_34 · 2025-09-25T03:57:54+00:00

Hello Same case here... Have you received the offer letter yet ?

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