Someone recently asked me about the corporate culture at Qualcomm. How would you describe it? Am I too bitter if all I see around me is unhealthy competition, backstabbing, nepotism, taking credit for other people's work and the like?
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I left Qualcomm around 2016 and have grown much more since then. It was very toxic place to work for me. I was able to get a job with other tech companies bigger than Qualcomm and almost doubled my salary last 6 years. QC thinks, they are the sh-t, well, they are not. Good luck to all of you...
Unfair, uneven, and mostly floating on the work of previous engineers who have left or about to leave. Weak middle management he-l.
The new culture is hire new grads or H1Bs, make them do all the hard work (it's hard because the previous engineers sucked). Then throttle their promotions and when they leave out of frustration hire a whole team in QIPL that does what they did.
To the original poster: I would like to say you're just bitter, but I'm bitter too, and I know a lot of bitter people. And its all for the reasons that you mention. So its not just our imagination. Unfortunately, the people perpetrating the bad behavior are either over-zealous engineers looking for the "P" title, or the Directors and VP that do the same or turn a blind eye. In either case, I place responsibility on those managers. Unfortunately, reporting the bad behavior to HR is useless (or even going above HR, who will kick it to HR), because HR will not be impartial and think of the greater good of the company. If the bad apple is a worker-bee, that's easy to fix: If its bad enough with enough complaints, then PIP 'em, replace, done. If the bad apple is a manager, they won't touch it with a ten foot pole. I think the managers know this, and therefore feel untouchable and can behave any way they like. Again, at the detriment of the greater good. It's really a pity, because in the long term what you are left with are more bad apples than good, and the tide turns where people with either stop wanting to join Qualcomm, or will know to leave ASAP, ie, after just 1-2 years, only using Q as a learning ground, with no genuine desire to contribute with hard work and new ideas and push technology forward. It actually becomes a conflict of interest, between the managers' interest in managing for their personal gain vs managing the company's resources for the company's gain.
Q loses in the end, but it will be their own fault for not holding management to high standard of quality.
Company culture? Humm…. I would say an underlying of resentment and racism…. People hate that certain people cook things that stink up the break room bad while other hate when people cook bacon…. It’s like being in HS again with a lot of clicks but the nerd clicks run the HS and are looking to take revenge on all the kids they feel wronged them when they were 14 years old!