They now have a monopoly on the wireless solutions in Meta products - VR, smart glasses and AR. These represent hundreds of millions of accreditative high margin revenue. And only hockey growth for decades to come. So just QCA alone may be 10K in the... — read more 

Wondering what is worse: Stay and do the job you don't like or leave, face reality, and risk for a better opportunity in a dry market. No trolls please. Down-to-earth comments are welcome.

Good luck

QC unionized like UAW??? No/ or yes I donut no

It's clear there are posters who are eager and excited about rumors of a layoff. I would say 90% of the posts are of that nature. So would employees who dread a layoff really be posting all this negativity. I doubt it. These fear mongers are probably... — read more 

Want to know how many think it will happen next week.

Want to know how many think it will happen this week.

I see lots of posts on this site hating people with side gigs. It is very much legal in California as long as it does not interfere with your day job and you are not working for the competition. Last time I checked Q was not in the RE or RE related... — read more 

149 cuts in Q Cambridge mentioned in the news

I haven't been keeping up with everything, but is entire modem impacted, or only IOT/handset? What about RFFE/Automotive?

Layoffs on Oct 11th is unlikely as the list is undergoing more disruptive revisions. Apparently, revenue projections are putting more pressure on cutting opex further.

Learnt from a Q Shanghai colleague, Shanghai is classified as a high cost area and a heavy cut is planned. Initially, we thought a high cost area meant Bay area or NYC, but it seems this time the bar is set surprisingly low.

The Apple deal removed the need to headcount reduction

It really IS darkest before the dawn. Stay flexible to new opportunities. Sometimes it takes a push out of complacency to get on to better things in your life. I don't know about a year from now, but it's almost a certainty that 5 years from now... — read more 

Is there any safe team? Auto? GPS? Just trying to comfort myself and keep updating my CV.

I can't wait to see (via LinkedIn) if management in my previous department gets the boot! The job market isn't good right now. I will get some satisfaction from seeing them struggle, like the rest.

When will the management get rid of slackers who are not motivated to work because of focus on passive income from rental properties or spending time advertising realtor business? Is the management itself motivated or are they slacker, too?

High growth areas

Nothing seems to be helping the stock go up. Layoff news MetaVerse AUTO blah blah ORYON APPLE DEAL for 3 more years Windows on SNAP What else I missed? So, It seems out of control, a downward spiral . Why does the WallStreet Hate... — read more 

Summary of all the articles: Consensus notification date:Oct 11 Status collectors(sr staff and higher): bad Engineer and Sr engineer:bad Staff engg:good (sandwiched between the above 2 and do all the important work) There, that should save all the... — read more 

Over the years I saw so many hard working engineers were laid off but Q realtors who post ads in Q mail list are still there, bringing clients to house watching during working hours. Can anyone explain what was going on?

I started working last year as a dev under Automotive and it's my first job out of college. I'm finding it hard to focus on work with this whole thing going on, so maybe I'm just fishing for some sort of piece of mind, but also curious to know if we... — read more 

What is the correlation between being PowerPoint jockey and getting laid off ? Most of my team higher-ups spend so much time with PowerPoint and Excel that they don't have time to do any technical work. That said I don't know if they really don't... — read more 

News from project-specific all hands… Need to get cost structure inline with other organizations within the company. 20% reduction in US. Will backfill resulting gaps from India. Severance is 2 weeks per year, plus a small title-dependent bump... — read more 

Finished a meeting VP level QCOM has recognized inefficiency of QIPL. Previous attempts over years was to maintain 4 to 1 ratio. All the way to CTO, we recognized that QIPL staff fundamentally require significant management oversight, are... — read more 

Whenever we hit major bumps, this question always comes up: Would this have happened at this scale if Sanjay Jha were the company CEO? And what would he do to prevent this in the first place?

I see lof of old timers in this project coming in as like rotten wine in New bottle. Is this project a next big thing like qualcomm executives are routing it to be?

Will be leaving Qualcomm as I landed another position. Hopefully one less layoff.

Morale is low and workload is getting higher as if they want to do a lot prior to the layoff. Just tell us so we can throw the towel or pick it up and continue.

Why the thread they are watching was deleted? What's being watched?

Anyone else impacted?

I only experienced Steve's leadership briefly but feel like this wouldn't have happened if chieftain Steve stayed on. He wouldn't have let those EVPs and SVPs and dinosaur board members bundle their failed projects with projects that were actually... — read more 

Don't mind those that talks about you or being happy you got laid off in the process. Keep your heads up, march on. Some may even have party with champagne to celebrate they survived, but don't let it get tk your head is most important.

List is done and nothing will change it. Great time to take on that home improvement project or trip to Greek islands.

I know of 2 people who know they are going out this layoff, one of them selling his home because of it. How can they know they are out if the list is not "fully finalized"? And if it is finalized maybe they want to compare it to the 3rd party... — read more 

Something tells me my luck is about to run out...

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