QCA experience

Anonymous · 2023-04-07T08:21:01Z

Project planning meeting, 20+ people most are principal/managers, dir’s, sr dir’s… all telling a few engineers to add more requirements and expectations to the plan to show they already request it, the engineers need to work on all of the requests Project starts, not enough setup or equipment or license, engineer is told to work overtime, take shifts while the same people who ask engineers for the work still have regular hours and good work life balance, no one looks for a new license or working equipment for the engineer who really needs it to do the work Setup has issues, the engineer is told to go to IT to get some part to try out. IT tells the engineer to wait aside. A director comes in with his laptop, immediately asks IT to work with him to recover a personal file which he happens to save on his work laptop about his son. If the file is not recovered, his wife will be very angry. Team lead has dementia onset symptoms, cannot remember where he is supposed to go, which floor/building/room he is supposed to go. The engineer wants to have a 1:1 with the manager, the manager says he/she is too busy. A few weeks later, the engineer hears the manager tells a favorite team member that he/she is looking for a school/kindergarten/preschool/daycare for his/her child during regular work time. He/she has visited so many, cannot remember which is which. Review time, the engineer finally got 10-15 min of the manager’s time, got blamed for things that the team didn’t achieve, didn’t get any credit for all the work done, got a rating that didn’t get much of anything. Got laughed at by other coworkers, always worked long hours, sacrificed so much personal life, couldn’t even get a good rating, don’t even think about a promotion. The engineer got bullied, reported to the manager, the manager didn’t care, then reported to HR, HR tried all types of excuses to not investigate. The engineer keeps getting emails to attend HR related events to support a “positive and fair work environment… zero tolerance to bullying, harassment…”. The engineer has so much work to do, no time to attend. Then management comes, asks the engineer “Don’t you want to have a positive and fair work environment? You don’t even want to show your presence to support it?” Getting a layoff package is a blessing.

Project planning meeting, 20+ people most are principal/managers, dir’s, sr dir’s… all telling a few engineers to add more requirements and expectations to the plan to show they already request it, the engineers need to work on all of the requests
Project starts, not enough setup or equipment or license, engineer is told to work overtime, take shifts while the same people who ask engineers for the work still have regular hours and good work life balance, no one looks for a new license or working equipment for the engineer who really needs it to do the work
Setup has issues, the engineer is told to go to IT to get some part to try out. IT tells the engineer to wait aside. A director comes in with his laptop, immediately asks IT to work with him to recover a personal file which he happens to save on his work laptop about his son. If the file is not recovered, his wife will be very angry.
Team lead has dementia onset symptoms, cannot remember where he is supposed to go, which floor/building/room he is supposed to go.
The engineer wants to have a 1:1 with the manager, the manager says he/she is too busy. A few weeks later, the engineer hears the manager tells a favorite team member that he/she is looking for a school/kindergarten/preschool/daycare for his/her child during regular work time. He/she has visited so many, cannot remember which is which.
Review time, the engineer finally got 10-15 min of the manager’s time, got blamed for things that the team didn’t achieve, didn’t get any credit for all the work done, got a rating that didn’t get much of anything. Got laughed at by other coworkers, always worked long hours, sacrificed so much personal life, couldn’t even get a good rating, don’t even think about a promotion.
The engineer got bullied, reported to the manager, the manager didn’t care, then reported to HR, HR tried all types of excuses to not investigate. The engineer keeps getting emails to attend HR related events to support a “positive and fair work environment… zero tolerance to bullying, harassment…”. The engineer has so much work to do, no time to attend. Then management comes, asks the engineer “Don’t you want to have a positive and fair work environment? You don’t even want to show your presence to support it?”

Getting a layoff package is a blessing.

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Remember QCA started to show they cared about fenale employees after Q got sued? QCA had management and HR selected their favorite female employees to be role models, gave speech about how they got to be where they were. We all know how things work in that place. The event also gave out awards to these female role models, starting from the head of the HR.

QCA is sh-t show. I was shown doors when I complained to HR about my previous manager who ate all my work credit.

QCA is sh-t show. I was shown doors when I complained about my previous manager who ate all my credit.

Qualcomm is long known for corrupt managers and HR. You can get bullied and the HR actually supports it.
The managers like to sweep things under the rug and if you speak up, then you get targeted more and they take revenge on you.

What a horrible experience. Q should be ashamed to hear these truths being told. They should be leaning into the problem, analyzing it, and fixing it. Not sweeping it under the rug. It's to Q's own benefit to not just talk the talk about "culture", but walk the walk, and make it so Q doesn't have such a bad reputation in how they treat their employees. These things don't stay hidden.
Hey, Mr @xeo Manager, that's nice that you've become Zen and can deal with the cr@p, but how about actually doing something to help your fellow human beings? How about breaking the trend of just looking out for yourself and try to effect change? Or are you just worried about your own job? Tell us, have the "managers" managed to understand what is REALLY going on? Don't need to hear your "advice".

I am not from QCA but totally agree. The best decision in my life was to leave this organization. There was no growth as an engineer but only busy work to satisfy managers' needs. Now I am much happier now in a different company. I am on H1B visa but still got five job offers. Have some self respect and find a better place.

Don't give your 110 or 120%. I give my honest 100%, sometimes may be 90%. It helps with managing your own expectation and thus the happiness. The review process or reward process is not 100% fair, but it is not too unfair either. I have been a manager for a while, I have had the same perception as yours, but as I have grown more experienced, more mature, I am happier than before. It is difficult to imagine how much work managers put in, when you only have part visibility of his or hers responsibility.

Team lead and mean coworkers hide knowledge from the non political engineer so he/she can't get his/her work done on time and make him/her look bad and receive low ratings.
The engineer is fed up with all the bullying and BS so he/she speaks up and stand his/her ground or try to switch departments within QCA so he/she gets put on PIP and kicked out. The irony is the HR person who claimed that QCA supports "positive and fair work environment" is the same HR person who is executing the PIP and separation plan.

Tell me the engineer is on visa without telling me the engineer is on visa. OPT/H1b/L1 are just indentured servitude in the nowadays.

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