I'm afraid that some tough times are in front of us. GD leaves Q and gets a job at a company that is realistically inferior to Q in the majority of the markets. If executives are abandoning ship the logical thing that comes to mind is that they know something we don’t and that the situation is much worse than we could anticipate.
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What would GD do first as the new CFO at Intel?
Instead of QCA, have another suggestion - how about getting in HR !
@1mwv: Nicely summed it up. All of those apply to couple of teams in QCA. Lots of people with inflated titles. Every other person is a lead of some sort and driving something.
Intel is inferior?!! Q id--ts enjoy smelling their own fart too much.
Pull your heads out of the sand and find another job already. I’ve never seen so many whiners who refuse to change their situation. Just look at the number of people who’ve been leaving on their own.
What don’t I understand. I read these boards and just keep seeing the same Waaah comments.
Is it because other companies will expect you in before 11:00?
Is it because you can’t pad the review process with your buddies?
Is it because your new boss might not give you preferential treatment since you’re not from the same village?
The level of denial and ignorance within the bowels of QC never ceases to amaze. They must be serving up some dang powerful kool-aid over there for you to JUST NOW be suspecting that maybe... just maybe... QC is doomed. Wow. Please edit your resume to indicate that you have a superhuman ability to ignore warning signs equal only to the last employee of Blockbuster. If everyone (and I literally mean everyone) at QC hasn’t started a serious push to get another job, well then I hope your plan is to straddle that missile into the ground while waving your cowboy hat. At this point, on an interview, anyone remotely familiar with QC’s situation will ask you what in the holy heck you were waiting for.
Well GD might have anticipated the inevitable for himself. Ahead of the Q2 earning call. His plan for a 80$ stock price didnt realize at all.
You said Intel is inferior to Q. Are you kidding the whole semi industry? Do you know the Intel's market share of CPU? For any case, it will survive much longer than any fabless company.
A lot of ex Qualcomm executives have left for Intel over the past couple years, VP and up. GD might be the biggest fish thus far, more to come I'm sure.
Anyone have a list? Should be a list of those VP and above whom have left, and to where they've gone.
GD is a big one, but look at his history. Leaving now is not inconsistent with it. Exec turnover has been relatively tame overall.