I’ve worked for Qualcomm in the past. They are an evil, heartless company that mistreats its employees. I was so miserable working in that toxic environment. If you get layed off consider yourself fortunate. Life will be better once you find a new employer. Trust me.
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Heartless? I'll give you an example of heartless. True story:
I invite my team to lunch, my good-bye lunch. I invite my manager as well. The same one that never lifted a finger towards submitting my case for promotion. After successfully delivering the project, filing patents on the project solution, excellent performance reviews, etc. Totally shut me down. At my farewell lunch (with no next job lined up), he says, "you know, if something costs $5000, for you its like it costs $10,000. The thing costs $5,000, and you didn't make $5,000 to pay for that thing". I f@cking wanted to punch him in the face right then and there. D!ck ! Scr3w the people that make you look good and get you your promotion -- it's the Qualcomm way.
I also agree with this post 100%! Leaving Qualcomm was the best thing that ever happened to me in my professional life. Of all the companies I have worked for QCOM was the absolute worst.
@4phn+1l9f5diT: No. You guys keep moaning about PMIC, but it is bad everywhere. I'm talking from personal experience, with lots of exposure to many groups over many years. I'm talking about Camera, Computer Vision, XR, Software, GPU. All the groups under MM R&D's SVP. He runs a very loose ship and lets his henchmen do whatever they want because 1) he is afraid of conflict has no cojones to sm--k down bad behavior, and 2) doesn't care. No discipline, justice, fairness starts from the top. When the middle men realize they can get away with any kind of treachery, its chaos, its the law of the jungle. So much potential gets wasted when they don't run an ethical ship. If they want to right the ship, they need to go to HR, gather all the complaints that they ignored in the past, FIRE those people instead of protecting them, and bring in people with ethics, morals, humanity, not just tech skills.
@2ooq: Did you use to work at the PMIC in San Diego? You are describing the culture at that group exactly. I have seen the ugly face of Qualcomm at the PMIC.
QC in this era just sucks. I put in years in SD watching it running into the ground. I was fortunate to find a few niche groups where the atmosphere was generally okay (run like startups, external ideas and people, and fighting to just exist inside QC but that was part of the fun). I survived several layoffs in this mode. A few I times I specifically noted that the headcount in SD would drop by thousands in the company directory after the layoffs then rise by almost exactly the same amount in India/China within a few months. So transparent.
In 2017 I was asked to phone screen and interview an engineer in China to replace the work the work I was doing there. I found them a decent one. Within 6 months I was part of the 2018 layoff. This was a cold thing to do. The few people inside QC that could have found a job for me to transfer to decided that they didn't want to. I'm much happier now outside at a FAANG. People are genuinely nice here.
The greatest generation at Qualcomm - the people who built the company - all left between 2010 and 2015. If you are still at Qualcomm, you are a replacement or substitute for the real thing, and will be treated as such. You are nothing to the company.
"Positions are temporary.
Ranks and titles are limited.
But the way you treat people,
will always be remembered"
Now that I'm out, I just wanted to say a big F@ck You to the managers and coworkers that lied, were hypocrites, stole ideas, blamed others, never took responsibility for their failures, k!ssed @ss, avoided responsibility, acted cowardly, maliciously and selfishly, stabbed others in the back, scapegoated others, never stood up for those they managed, always put themselves first, and generally showed me their true selves, and showed me that, truly, Qualcomm attracts and brings out the WORST in people. I had NEVER been exposed to such filthy, disgusting, cowardly behavior in people, and certainly not as frequently, as I did during my time at Q. All I can say is, the real world is not like that. The real world are not like Q employees. Once again, and for the last time: FuQ Q. I'm glad I'm out, I'll never look back, and may you devour each other with your poisonous, venomous souls.
Yawn, show me a non heartless fortune 500 company and I resign to join them. All ceos are beholden to the shareholders and employ people who deliver results for most part than how they treat their subordinates. . As others say, there are places in the company whr they won't work you to the bone. Time to think for yourself .
Qualcomm like any other company has a global culture that applies to all departments, and local culture that is unique to each department. I worked at Qualcomm for a few years and I have seen it going downhill fast with the focus on the bottom line. The culture at the department I worked at was even way worse, very toxic and exclusive.
If you are very technical person then I would say stay away since you will be working on commodity (This is from the mouth of many Q managers I talked to). If you don't mind having dull skills or no technical skills at all them Qualcomm probably a good place for you. The reputation of Q employees in the industry is not good anyways.
It is same everywhere…..it is about how is your luck
Repeat also that it highly depends on group and that can change over time back and forth. And this is most companies. No surprise.
@dub+1l9f5diT 100% agree. Moved from bad group to good group. Much better.
it depends on which group my friends. I consider myself lucky so far. Q has been treating me right, good pay and friendly co-workers. I'm just an average engineer here.
Agree with you more than 100%.