Yes, non technical program/project managers & directors make product decisions all the time in various support divisions I had been with. I guess it makes them feel important to tell people what to do and force it no matter. They simply move from... — read more 

If I run Q a) Remove the titles of people : No titles. Everyone is employee....and managers. b) Performance to be evaluated by everyone. You can review everyone and anyone you want. You can write whatever you are writing on this site. The evaluation... — read more 

The Q is already or has been hitting middle management by cutting the many extra benefits of the executive plan. Essentially they are getting the same coverage as a new hire. They truly have lost that connection with their employees. It use to be a... — read more 

QC is between a rock and a hard place wrt apps processors. Apple and Samsung on top, Mediatek on the bottom. Intel, Nvidia, TI etc. lurking nearby. On the modem side there is competition from many vendors. The rest of the tech world has caught up to... — read more 

Am guessing the reason Steve looked so nervous at All Hands was that $20 Million doesn't go as far as it used to. Meanwhile, Paul has to fly his Canadian wife clone all over with him. Lucky that Qualcomm is still footing the bill for the private... — read more 

in long career of 8 years i had seen how core values have diminished. It was just few years ago we used to talk about issues, technical details, brainstorm small to big things .... not we talk about resource mountain chart, we see PMs taking decision... — read more 

Otherwise, I wouldn't have moved to Silicon Valley and taken the job with Apple.

I have never seen Steve M. being so nervous and fidgeting so much during all hands meeting. His voice was breaking on a couple of occasions and he was almost stuttering in the beginning of the meeting. George’s presentation is also a joke. “The... — read more 

share holders!! you brought it to yourselves! but this is just the beginning. let them go before it is over

QC is still the dominate LTE provider, though MediaTek, Spreadtrum and Huawei looks like have been gaining ground. Once you give the technology know-how to other companies that use to be your customer, it's only a matter of time before they become... — read more 

Role model

Like I said. If you bought a January 30 put option when the stock price was still $71/share for $1.50/share, that put option is probably going to worth $6.50-7/share tomorrow. And it would have been cheap insurance versus taking a $5-6/share hit from... — read more 

When I first started at Qualcomm decades ago, Irwin and crew's emphasis was always about innovation and pushing the envelope with IS-95. Years later, it was about pushing the envelope with HDR, and then again with OFDMA and its Flarion acquisition... — read more 

Do CEO's actually spend $95 million, or is the amount like a trophy and a way of keeping score? It just seems sort of, well, sick. Especially when there are pending layoffs.

Please populate this post with your thoughts,

Please be polite.

broadcom,samsung,intel,mediatek. are they better than qualcomm? as an individual contributor, I think we should still be able to get a decent salary to pay for the mortgage. The market is not bad these days. get layoff is a lucky thing as you get... — read more 

What questions would you ask Steve M in the All Hands Meeting next week if you knew your question would be anonymous?

If you look closely at the statistics, the Qualcomm layoffs are very biased. They hit older employees way beyond the statistical average. Is this trading experience for cheap labor or outright age discrimination.

Exposes the true QCOM culture and how dysfunctional it is..i also like how it has become the official employee forum for sharing the latest relevant news/company developments and is not propagandizing, unlike the QCdaily newsletters

Let the discussion begin as to why office snitches should be eliminated. We have one on here aka Anonymous59943.

Market seems pretty tough...not a single interview yet and I've been getting the word out about my availability since after the new year. I hope we are not at the start of a repeat of 2009..

Steve, Paul, I know you are not worried about getting layoff but if you accidentally stray on this blog, I want to let you know I absolutely trust you guys.

It's clear that Anonymous )59662,59653,59649,59648,59521,59428,58917,58801,58222,57977,57871,57226,55978,55950,55931,55855) are the same person. So why not use a pseudonym. My suggestion would be "The Patron Saint of Ellipses Laden Tech Rants... — read more 

When you Qualcomm employees need to travel internationally, Qualcomm puts you in a nice Business Class seat and a nice hotel.... When MediaTek employees need to travel internationally, they fly coach... Now think about how much travel everyone is... — read more 

Unfortunately, with the way things are in Qualcomm. If you are actually a good employee in the U.S. and completely document your architecture, design, implementation of your hardware/software/firmware etc, you really make it very easy for someone... — read more 

They were talking to me about it how in years pasted, free massages, and a $4000-5000 extra bonus for any medical/dental/eye/health credit..That was on top of an already good healthcare plan that is managed by United Healthcare.. (Qualcomm self... — read more 

I'm surprised Qualcomm hasn't adopted an unlimited but no accrued vacation policy yet to save on cost.... A lot of tech companies are already doing this....The basic idea behind it is employees have unlimited vacation, and if you want vacation, you... — read more 

Here's just some friendly advice. Take it with a grain of salt from a previous Web 1.0 web company employee that had a lot of unvested and vested stock grants... If you have a lot of of "in the money" stock options, or you have a pretty sizeable ESPP... — read more 

Where is well-placed sources within the organization have pointed out that another layoff might happen in the coming days. The Numbers range from 1000 to 2000

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-20/samsung-said-to-drop-qualcomm-chip-from-next-galaxy-smartphone.html

On one hand, you have employers that want to shaft U.S. workers by reducing pay, reducing compensation packages, moving job overseas, outsourcing,and throwing you into the unemployment lines. On the other hand, you have a government with a Liar in... — read more 

...so that you can have a baby in 1 month...since for the same money you spend on that 1 U.S. woman, you would be able to afford 9 overseas women, and get 9x more productivity in having a baby...

Is MLK day a working day for QCOM?

Since bean counters like to do bean counting math and propose hiring 6+ engineers in bangalore or china "for the same cost as hiring 1 engineer in the U.S.".... I think companies would save more money if they hired 20+ marketing people for the same... — read more 

http://retireby40.org/gave-up-engineering-career/

Welcome to the race to the bottom.... Not only will things be free, but companies will pay the customer to switch over... http://www.thestreet.com/story/13013670/1/qualcomm-qcom-stock-downgraded-today-at-drexel-hamilton.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO... — read more 

If U.S. companies can only compete on cost alone... It won't win against the asian players...even if it massively outsources everything.... The only advantage american companies have is if they can out-innovate everyone else and charge a higher... — read more