As who familiar with the CE structure in QCT, you may know that there are two many heads in CE team located in Taiwan. Why it's necessary to have so many managers and directors within the customer engineering team? What do they really do? Nothing... — read more 

Should have been obvious that data capacity in mobile infrastructure is increasing. I mean isnt Qualcomm among the first ones to know these things... Should have been obvious that people would consume content on mobile Should have been obvious if any... — read more 

Will they clean up the lowly engineers first and just hand over more work to the remaining senior, staffs, senior staffs etc?

Looking at situations like this it seems marriage and buying house is very risky. So many bills and loans etc. go MGTOW.

"You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work... — read more 

As accelerated Reviews will be the criteria for layoff and I see many senior folks moved on recently. Does it means current management team/structure is what will be responsible to execute these upcoming REVIEWS and pick winners and losers?

I've been through it a few times, if this is your first time it's normal to be angry and apprehensive, but you'll be OK. Setbacks are temporary. Struggles give way to new opportunities. When a door gets closed God opens a new one. Make sure you get... — read more 

better to move to QCA?

More like Q is SOL

Today I started preparing my resume and preparing myself for a move, as I think other than Sm, no one is safe. I am wondering if I should rent out my house or sell it. My house is in carmel Valley and my mortgage plus tax is 4.5k? No way I will find... — read more 

Its very unlikely that Samsung will return to using snapdragon or Q's LTE modem. The best thing that could happen is if one or more of the other Chinese players dethrones samsung, the way Samsung dethroned htc..

One scenario is that QCOM works like heck to get the 820 out, and does, but by that time, Samsung has also made progress on their chip and its good enough for their purposes, so there is little reason to move, esp considering their cost savings. They... — read more 

Who's the best CEO of all times?? Steve Jobs/Jeff Bezos/Mark Zuckerberg

Just make managers responsible for ensuring that their groups are putting in the hours they are charging. No more WFH, being paid for working out in the Gym, being paid for "Feel Good" events etc. since hours and resources now need to be well... — read more 

Arthur Anderson, Enron, Lehman Brothers.......shit surely tastes different when it hits home...QC is not the only company producing great stuff and SD by far is not the only place to live in this country...executive incompetence is rampant all over... — read more 

This is what fuQed Q: performance rating based on standards not tying to reward real performers well. I used to work hard the first years, then going through this fuQing process, and the 15% promo pool, I just lost interest and now I don't give a... — read more 

One news I heard from HQ that the management level in CE team in Taiwan and Korean team will re-org. It's confirmed by one VP.

Half-senile board giving Paul a retention package, as if Irwin's son is going to up and leave and go work for Broadcom. Franklin's ranting on investments mailing list Busting my ass at work, only to get a 3, cause "we normally give out a 3, then 3... — read more 

4:20 it's time for a smoke break. smile at your brothers and sisters who are in the same boat. put that headphone on get that good beats going on and I'm going to code.

Even if you survive this one, the story doesn't end. Intel will certainly do another round of lay-off once the deal is done. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/24/us-qualcomm-split-intel-idUSKCN0PX2GT20150724?feedType=RSS&feedName=innovationNews — read more 

.....and then Paul got up and basically told everyone to stop whining. I believe he even referred to what was happening as a "bummer". Not for someone who drove home in his Ferrari last night.

It's about time you people get your asses handed to you after overcharging all those OEM suppliers over the years. Don't let the door hit you too hard on your ass in the way out! Deserve all you get!!

Increasing the mix of resources in LOW COST regions. There is a thing called corporate social responsibility. Ungrateful fxxxers.