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If you are doing fine and then in the middle of a quarter, your quarterly goals get modified by your manager, most likely you are set up for PIP
This is how they do it silently when they don't find any other excuses. Sometimes, a re-org to change your manager prior to the goal-changes occurs as well so the new (excited) manager does the trick and the former one doesn't get his hands dirty.
Retirement season @ Q
Q is 30+ years old. Last year, people in the executive suite started to retire. This year it's SVP and VP retirement time. The urge to retire will move into lower ranks as time goes by. Within the next 6 months, expect a lot of people announcing... — read more
TDDI Dev to go in-houe
Yher you go... Apple (AAPL) to Design TDDI Chips In-House June 22, 2015 8:50 AM Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is said to be developing touch and display driver integration (TDDI) chips in-house, according to Digitimes. The report noted that the TDDI solutions... — read more
Lack of promotion for older employees setting stage for a PiP?
Folks, Will get straight to the point. I am 42, have been working for QC for 16 years now and have been stuck at Senior Staff for the last 7 years now. My manager is 5 to 6 years younger than me - group of 9 people, every single other person is in... — read more
This is exactly why many U.S. companies are in big trouble....
While our big U.S. technology companies are more interested in returning shareholder value via financial engineering, technology companies abroad are investing for the long term into R&D and patents....If this trend keeps up, U.S. companies are in... — read more
How to make VP at age 35 at Qualcomm
Male Communications Engineer Jewish, just like most of executive management Ability to add numbers and make a budget In some cases, these are virtually the ONLY skills that were required in order to earn the rank of VP at Qualcomm by age 35. — read more
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What are MRend and CAmon working on? How much QCT management laid off so far?
Corrupt Old Management
Better world out there Fact: Company has bought back billions of stock, but share count has even gone UP. Wealth transferrr to managers execs who don't work at all, spend time in pompouss meetings, saying their engineers will work weekends to get... — read more
After completely my job hunt, here's my take on the current job market in San Diego
Well, I just completed my job search and I'll be starting a new job in a much better environment soon. I thought I'd share what I think the current job market in SD looks like. I don't need to talk about the Bay Area market, because from what I can... — read more
Man, it's really quite on this forum...It feels like I can almost hear the crickets chirping....
...before a major thunderstorm.....I heard the ax will swing in July....
Stock Buybacks, Debt, Holding Up Price
The rushed (sorry "accelerometered") stock buybacks are propping up the price. Looketh at the pattern of the stock price falling vs. rising.... Recent New York times article with Real Numeros: Search for: stock-buybacks-that-hurt-shareholders -... — read more
Hey all you Geeks. Grow a pair, and learn how to protect your own personal I.P.
Stories like this should never happen. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-dealt-a-blow--disney-s-outsourcing-about-face-and-netflix-vs--hulu-145952456.html Read paragraph about Disney. If you are told to train foreign workers on something, give the... — read more
Please lay off the bad drivers
How can you engineer or PM if you can't even comprehend traffic interleaving?
the sky is falling down. the boat is far from sinking
we are still the best in the planet
QCT has an all hands each quarter. What about CRD, HR and QTL?
Do they have pow wows?
Wolf of Morehouse Drive.
And here's to you, Mr. Rosenstein, JANA's loved more than you will know. Boardroom bless you, please Mr. Rosenstein. Seats are held for those who reign in executive pay, Hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey.... Where have you gone, Irwin and Viterbi-Oh, Our... — read more
PSS..... MediaTek is hiring in san diego.
Check out their linkedin profile. They looking for modem engineers.... Better get plan B lined up in case plan A falls apart.
No layoff necessary. Just cut salaries across the board....
...Then you don't need to deal with pink slips and WARN act....People in hot job markets like Bay Area will just quit. (People in san diego will be pissed, but most of them will have to put up with it, since they won't find anything else)....You... — read more
Awesome job everyone! Hope you had a nice weekend. Stock is moving towards $66 and below. Work hard today!
JA.JA.JA.JANA... Mo...Mo...Mo... Buybacks!
How many strikes does a Sr. Director get?
One Sr. Dir at work is notorious for being a nasty little bully. He regularly takes people into one-on-ones where he yells at them and generally berates them. Of course he never does this in front of anyone senior, and always picks on people at a... — read more
More problems with the Crapdragon
http://www.zdnet.com/article/overheating-concerns-continue-to-plague-snapdragon-810-powered-devices/
Fat*ss and 7-1
Do we need two people to lead QCT? What is so special about QCT that you need 2 people to lead the division? Can we not get rid of one of them? I vote for Fat*ss in this case. We could save the jobs of 20 low level engineers solely on his medical... — read more
Shareholders love layoffs as it makes stock to go higher. Among them, SM is one of the biggest one with tons of stocks, so why wait?
http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/officerProfile?symbol=QCOM.O&officerId=1190122
Thelayoff Trashers and Raiders: You Win
Today this illustrious board reached it lowest point EVER. I can no longer stand reading this GARBAGE. It is with mixed feelings I decided to join glassdoor.com which has a much cleaner environment. I have to admit I'll miss the anonymous freedom of... — read more
The person who keyed my new Cayenne Turbo S is going to be PIP'd
As I walk over to my car to head out for lunch, I see a 1/16" wide scratch going from the front driver side headlight all the way to the rear taillight....it went down to the bare metal. I am fking pied right now. Once the Q security team finds out... — read more
Maybe we should come up with different colored 820 app processors
It worked for apple and the iPhone. I'll take my 820 processor in pink please.
Fire 2/3 of Directors/VPs
"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy." —J. Paul Getty