It's frustrating to see how often promotions and opportunities seem to align more with who you're related to than what you bring to the table. At the director and above, it’s hard to ignore the number of spouses and siblings in the same org. Sometimes it feels more like a family business than a meritocracy. Anyone else noticing this pattern? Feel free to drop the names or family ties you’ve seen around. Let’s see how deep this goes.
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@8pz you must be a paqi, a j1had1, or a c0r0na v1rus
Absolutely , its all networking . Parents working less and are more busy running their kids' robotics competitions/ companies , opening an non profit oragansation or doing their kids science fairs /olympiads.
Haha, YES! PMO Family Reunion = Spouse/Sibling Seniority Circus! 😂
Nailed it—the rosters read like a wedding invite list. Spouses and siblings plopped in senior PMO spots, no quals required beyond "married to the right cousin." Just sit pretty, demand status updates, and collect that fat paycheck. PhD? Patents? Nah, nepotism badge gets you the throne.
These "senior" fam-tastic clowns hoard glory statuses, then butcher them in meetings—timelines twisted, progress Photoshopped, lies on lies. Meanwhile:
- Micromanaging minions like paranoid in-laws.
- Blame-dodging ninjas: "Not us, blame the peasants!"
- Ghosting deliverables—poof, gone till next holiday BBQ.
- Fake crises everywhere: "EMERGENCY!" for their ego boosts.
- Info vaults: Lock it up to stay "indispensable."
- Credit thieves: Your win = their LinkedIn flex.
- Meeting marathons on nothing, zero results.
High-paid daycare for the connected elite—zero metrics, all family favors. Drain on the org! Purge the tree or prune it.
Check the PMO rosters. It’s basically a family tree. It’s the perfect spot for 'spouses and siblings' because there’s no objective metric for success. You don't need a PhD or a patent to sit in a meeting and ask for a status update. These roles will continue to be used as a high-paid daycare for the well-connected.
Modem System Test (MST) also has some shady business going on with some team leads (read: principal engineer in 5G mmW) in cahoots with their team members, promoting them to reach a staff level before deciding to get married to them!
Casting couch perhaps?
@e5 Network matters!
Corruptcomm! That's what's called. It has always been like that. Just full of corrupt senior directors who are mostly incompetent .
Director roles aren’t family perks — call it out.
@bj Promoting your own wife to director? That’s not just questionable — it’s outright shameful
@bj must be nice having performance reviews at dinner table
@dr
you have managed to turn a 5 star restaurant into a Burger King
now we evolve at a snail's pace
I know many instances in qualcomm where someone got a job just because of knowing someone
There is no meritocracy
Nothing wrong in that - as long as business objectives are met.
This is why you need autists running companies, top down. We won't put up with that.
Our Department Heads were tasked to see what could be done to save millions of dollars about 10 years ago….long story short 4 various groups in our department were all given the axe and advised that our positions were going to be outsourced to a Service company and we were all going to be working as Consultants. All this at an All Hands Meeting at the Newly built Q Auditorium with HR waiting for us outside the doors. They picked and chose who they were going to keep as Full Time employees…the Company was no longer about Employees but the Profits. Only less than 20 percent transitioned.
RF PTE Senior Director promoted his wife all the way to Director
What other last names?
1-Jacobs
2-Amon
Hm..... perhaps change your last name to "Jacobs" ? That's where the nepotism started.
Yes in deed. Nepotism at its finest and cap that off with a POS HR dept.