Dont wait 60 days to apply for jobs. Most hiring cycles can take 45 to 60 days. Most potential employers will wait for you if you are the top candidate...

Except for 5G, the plan is to move all engineering to India (cost saving). A new lease for a huge building is being negotiated.

My VP already has the list for second round of lay off happening in July

Qualcomm April 2018 Layoffs - ABC 10 TV Coverage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZke74kiHEE

I GTFO of the Q almost 3 years ago because I saw that the company wasn't going anywhere. Is it seriously that interesting rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?

I was laid-off by Qualcomm in 2015....I am not trying to brag but if it brings any comfort to all my friends here, I was able to find a much better job ( Great manager/ team, working on cutting edge technology that directly improves peoples lives and... — read more 

Any news on Boulder office?

Any news about QCA layoff headcount reduction?

http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/16/technology/china-united-states-5g-technology-study/index.html "The US wireless industry is prepared to pump $275 billion into 5G deployment, which could create up to 3 million new jobs and boost the country's GDP by... — read more 

Will the department of labor demand this information ?

Good one, reduction team doing a good job. ppl need to stay until termination date to have the severance package. if you find a job before your termination date, you need to leave as resignation. good, and probably pay your sign-on bonus back, if you... — read more 

So much for cheap labor nonsense, all of them are gone. Poor folks would have to find a job before their last day or they will have to leave the country. A colleague was literally in tears, as he was 3 months from getting his Green card. He had... — read more 

I’m from NJRC and lucky to have stayed. I however saw around 90+ people get notices today. Very sad. We, the people who remain behind don’t know what’s in store for us and are also worried. The management here completely s---s and has no foresight... — read more 

Look at it this way. They need to make that $117b offer seem like a bad deal to the investors so let's use the number $130b as a base line. Company is GOING to get broken up, then it's GOING to sell off those divisions that aren't the main... — read more 

Extreme poor handling. For a company that has planned this for a few months now, it could have been much better. What do you think?

I googled every major Tech co. to see what they're doing and in the past year, as well as currently, every company is laying people off. I'm talking Microsoft to Dell, Intel, IBM, name a company, they're laying people off. Even Amazon, if you can... — read more 

Had ratings of 6 or better in the last 4 years, yet still shown the boot. Not sure what criteria was used but time to move on!

See under HR links in qnet. These are public notices.

We all want to hope for the best, but some take it too far and mock anyone who says anything about layoffs. These are the people who never developed emotionally past grade 3, so their responses to a threat are childlike. Ignore them, their denial... — read more 

Address: 17111 El Vuelo in Rancho Santa Fe Created for the co-founder of Qualcomm, listed by my firm and sited squarely at the top of San Diego's hot real estate market. Seller will entertain offers between $33,963,000 & $39,963,000 Video:... — read more 

[Source Below, KGTV ABC News, Channel 10, San Diego] The employee told 10News that they estimate the company is laying off more than 1,000 people across the board from management down. Source:... — read more 

Possible? Likely? Thoughts?

Our VP kept an all hands now and told everyone that layoffs were completed and everyone present in the meeting are safe. But it sure varies across departments. Most folks already got the notice in the morning

Please send a courtesy email to those not impacted so they can focus on work....

We hope you enjoy the day. Management is working hard to make this event more frequent, annual or even semi-annual.

Are we done with it yet? Can we dust our hands and get back to work until the next layoff?

https://www.10news.com/news/layoffs-coming-to-qualcomm-employees-report

What is the count?

Or is this only technical staff

Getting Ready For Layoffs.... Here is a generic checklist of steps to take if you are about to be laid off. Not my list, it's a copy/paste from IBM's page here -it's from here @ScheGbT - some things are good to remember, so keep it handy... If you... — read more 

Your most influential employees are getting vocal – and more visible. Traditionally, corporate communications has had an implicitly collegial agreement with employees that went something like this: We’ll tell you the company news, and welcome your... — read more