Enjoy the ride down,

If you are skilled, enjoy being challenged and making more money why would anyone want to stay at Qualcomm? At what point can a company keep operating with LIFERs at the helm? LIFER = Lazy, Inefficient Fu---r Expecting Retirement

If you have any complaint about anyone in your line or management or team leads, file anonymous complaint. This will leave paper trail. HR can not overlook multiple complaints. If you are laid off and have grievance about leads or management, and can... — read more 

Layoffs are done and folks are already asking about the next round. It hasn't been even a week yet. And I'm not blaming them, we all know how things work here nowadays. It's just one never-ending cycle.

The decision makers are politicians. No understanding of the reality on ground and how things get done. There is a real possibility that Qualcomm outrightly loses modem leadership coming out of this downturn and ends up playing catch up in every... — read more 

Besides the coming 5% AR reductions in December, what’s the news for the rounds in Q1 2024?

RIP Please get some help before you would ever get to that point in your life.

What this practiced in the layoffs? I would imagine that Ace would be a champion for it.

I have at least five years left and I honestly don't know how I'm going to make it with my mental health intact. Yes, we've always had layoffs, but not this often. Not to mention, finding a new job was much easier a decade ago than now. I do have... — read more 

Q will go on, even if individuals don’t make it. Q cash reserves are enormous and have plenty of runway to make mistakes and move forward. People will be let go in the processes and new people will be added and happy to work at Qualcomm. Remember... — read more 

Will QC share the demographic of the layoffs? They currently share the age range. I would imagine it is not as diverse and inclusive as HR loves to project….

How bad was it at the BXB MA site?

She has amassed a huge organization of totally worthless trolls, that serve no purpose in this organization.. It's not hard, let the smart engineers pick the "talent"... Don't force the "inclusion" of stupid people. Look at how many new Senior... — read more 

New CEO and executives. New fresh young board of directors with vision and ambition. Being sold out

if the China market doesn’t improve, are they just going to announced another layoff end of the year

Hard lessons learnt: You’re being hired only to be sla-ghtered in the next round. If the manager doesn’t have a plan for your growth, gtfo. Some teams don’t care about improving the quality of the product or the work. If you’re a woman, forget... — read more 

They'll RIF you

Confirmed through Dir and VP. Two more waves are planned for 2024 with a likely total of 10k. Almost all in the US. They'll keep the H1Bs around and work them 80-100 hrs/week to maintain the sweatshop

I heard this is just the starting round. Correct?

Such a waste of resources they produce almost nothing, just a bunch of bobbleheads.

3k RIF is too little. There will be PIP based on AR results every year. PTE team are barely touched this time. Need some transition time before moving most testing to TJ and APEC.

What all teams got impacted by this layoff ?

Just because Huawei stopped being your customer, and also because less people are getting new phones due to the inflation, you are already laying off people? Am i correct?

Not realized such a big number until this layoff. Then why need so many? Anyone can explain?

This first round affected about 3k worldwide Total reduction is expected to be 10 to 12k Confirmed from a VP 2 or 3 more rounds to go!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chipmaker-qualcomm-lay-off-over-201958166.html

Approximately 1,560 employees across the U.S., 1,258 of which were in California.

Master Data, Capacity Planning and Demand Planning are now starting up in Taiwan. Slowly moving out of San Diego. Will take a few years but relocating the jobs to Taiwan.

https://www.nj.gov/labor/assets/PDFs/WARN/2023_WARN_Notice_Archive.pdf Does it make more than 50% in this office ?

Any VPs in this round of layoffs? In particular how about RF/Analog Design. I heard a rumor that KS might be invited to leave.

It seems like a couple times a year I hear about Qualcomm layoffs. Can this company just restructure and be done with it? Why so many iterations of layoffs over the years?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/qualcomm-cuts-jobs-california-pledge-183406712.html

NJ 91. California WARN notices are delayed 3-4wks, for all companies. https://data.tcpalm.com/see-which-companies-announced-mass-layoffs-closings/?query=Qualcomm

Looks like it was all completed yesterday. It would have been nice to know this ahead of today, but I guess that would have been too much to ask for.

# peeps+titles of the ones affected yesterday that I know of: 3- Senior Staff, 2- Staff Engineer, 1- Engineer. RFFE group. Please share your counts and group.

I really hope the PowerBall winner was one of the QC employees affected yesterday.

This is guaranteed to affect our work even if most of us try and double our workloads - which is impossible. Being the one left behind is not that great either.