My manager plays favorites openly, and if you're not in the clique, good luck. And God forbid you push back, suddenly you're on their radar in the worst way. Toxic doesn't even cover it.
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I saw my old manager from a distance at the grocery store today, head down on his phone. I thought to myself, "what a piece of sh!t". He was a Director before, and threw SO many people entrusted to him under the bus and repeatedly kissed so much @$$ of those above him, that he finally made it to VP as a Tr*mp-loving VP who ignored all his shortcomings finally aged out and left, promoting him to take over. Yea, sh!t floats to the top. Sad fact of life. Moving up on the backs of others doing the actual work, smiling all the while. That's not skill. That's not talent. That's not earned. I'm sure he knows he's a low-life, but in the end, he's shopping in the same grocery stores, driving on the same roads, and driving on the same roads and living in the same society and neighborhood of people he scr3wed over. Was it worth it? Doesn't know what its like to be a decent human being with integrity. Human garbage.
H1B planted weeds and now we're overgrown. Work has become a sweatshop and it smells like one.
@dp There's an old proverb that still rings true today: A fish rots from the head...
@aq what did you say to her?
Its the same story across all departments
Qcom is rotten to the core starting from the top
I dont advise young people to join this company
@d9 PMIC sys, VI or PTE?
You must be in PMIC
I spent 18 months at Qualcomm, but the toxicity was just too much. I actually managed to get fired so I wouldn't have to pay back my retention bonus. Within weeks, I found a new job with a 65–75% pay bump, and I’m way happier now.
The people who've been at Qualcomm—or even worse places, if that is possible—their whole lives think that’s as good as it gets. When you tell them the environment is toxic, they look at you like you're crazy. They just don't know any better.
And one of the silliest things I’ve ever heard was when the HR bi--h said to me, 'Tell me what you would do differently and how you would convince us that you should keep your job.' The audacity of that bi--h is fu--ing amazing. She still needed more clues that I wanted them to fire me? For fu-k's sake.