Heard around at IT that convo's about delivery of layoff just happened. GL!
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I find it hard to believe there are any white non Indian employees at Q any longer. I look across the street all the time and rarely see any and if they are any the are probably status checkers.
@gv yeah - While many individuals were sidelined, others received undeserved promotions. This is a positive step toward addressing those issues.
@sq You don't have facts, so bad if you're still employed in this AI world
Last hired and first fired:
https://www.epi.org/blog/black-women-suffered-large-employment-losses-in-2025-particularly-among-college-graduates-and-public-sector-workers/
@sq AI is the default excuse for all corporations these days, because it makes them look sharp and forward-thinking. In reality, it's just to save money to trade your American smart but higher cost workforce for offshore workforce that costs a fraction of the price. They don't care the remainder of the workforce has to spend 3 hours on the phone with offshore to discuss something that would have taken 5 mins for onshore ppl to complete, and done correctly. Why, cos' the c suite ppl are not the ones who ever have to deal with those folks.
So, primarily white non-Indian employees that have been working at Q for over 15+ years were targeted in San Diego. Someone should ask what nationality and age were the ones that were targeted. They said the reason they were being laid off was because of AI. That’s definitely an excuse
@qa They did. You must not be a Q employee if you haven't and you're just a disgruntled troll.
Very nice
Hopefully qpoet gets hit too.
Sales Ops got impacted again after the 2023/2024 slimdown. Now 1/3 size
Marketing, Corporate Comms and Tech Comms all impacted.
@gv Said like a true Q manager, 👏
San Diego non-IT and non-engineering impacted.
Good for IT.
Recent leadership changes in IT have successfully identified and begun addressing structural inefficiencies stemming from the 2020 reorganization. The previous "Horizontal-Vertical" model resulted in fragmented ownership, delivery delays, and inconsistent job titles for identical roles, which negatively impacted compensation structures. Current efforts to standardize titles and realign responsibilities are successfully restoring accountability and operational clarity
For sure 3% non-domain expert engineers, if AI is in use at Qualcomm.
What percentage is planned for engineers in San Diego?
@e9
Layoffs for other groups coming in April .
It layoffs is the beginning
Sorry for the IT folks who got impacted, and so relieved for other groups!
@bx should be done for now. 10% of IT globally
@c0 even engineering has very low attrition because of being in san Diego.
Done, IT has very low attrition, so this layoff was planned. Not for Engineerin. as they have high attritions.
Is it done? Or different team has different date?
IT here and impacted
Which teams are affected?
How about modem sw?
My team in Bldg N got impacted.
Can confirm a few people I know in EUS affected.
@a5 conversation
Is this IT specific or more groups?
What's convo? I saw nothing.
What sort of titles getting hit hardest? Any management?
can confirm. 2 week notices handed out today. April 7th LWD.