If Qualcomm’s leadership is unable to anticipate the future direction of technology and guide the company early—rather than constantly playing catch-up once competitors are already at an advanced stage—then it is fair to question why they are being compensated at such high levels. Not a single annual strategic roadmap shared up through 2022 or 2023 even meaningfully mentions AI, despite it being an obvious, industry-defining shift. That failure reflects a serious lapse in vision, accountability, and leadership.
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Culture has been destroyed. Too many H1-Bs and brain drain to other companies is responsible. All the jobs are in Indian cities like Chennai and Hyderabad.
Apple has designed their own chip and dumped Qualcomm. Big loss for Qualcomm.
Intense competition from Broadcom, mediatek and Realtek is also responsible for small growth.
Incompetent board. They just fall for the BS by our C-suite.
The jokers want the stock to fall to 100 so they can sell it and cash in 100s of millions as a comp package. Employees and investors are the losers...
@ez
the rot starts at the top
it's like having cancer in your head -> that condition is terminal
@bw
in the US we call that 'merit'
QC leadership never wants new blood. They only protect themselves and their friends. That's why we are in this mess. New blood is needed to have new vision and roadmap. CA is not able to articulate what is the roadmap because he's incompetent.
CTO missed AI but CA kept him and then replaced with modem
Guy as CTO... That speaks volume. He's an id--t. C suite only cares about themselves and they spend on lavish parties, jet and ensure their friends at work get promotions.
Never seen this much corrupted org ever. Intel had this problem also. No skills or new tech but just hire or merge bunch of clowns to catch up. Too late. U know why?
@OP Leadership compensation should be tied to real stock performance—earned through sustainable growth, not inflated by layoffs, offshoring, or chronic understaffing.
Too many businesses are low-margin! sell all low profit busienss, start from PMIC, RFFE, etc...
Workers get laid off but their (fake leaders) bonuses keep increasing.
In RFIC, SVP and VP each has their cult who do nothing but politics...still survive every layoffs.. one example is Senior Director RS and his brother RS thriving doing nothing due to KS family relations
Just asked Gemini: "Since Cristiano Amon became CEO on June 30, 2021, Qualcomm’s stock has experienced significant volatility but ultimately remained nearly flat, trading at $136.30 as of February 5, 2026, compared to its $142.93 close on his start date"
This guy is a clown! We lost all good talent to the fruit, he didn't do anything to retain them, very stupid! His diversification strategy is not working, and we will lose a lot in modem business, this company is sc--wed!
don't be modest
they also lack intelligence, integrity, will, grit, ...
@OP Why are they being compensated at such high levels? Corporate corruption at work. Corrupt board. Nepotism. A bunch of has-been's in wireless technology trying to figure out the maze of new tech. Eventually, there will be cost cutting, layoffs, geo-shifting to India on steroids. But the clueless c-suite will not change.