Honestly, when I first applied for a job here, I couldn't have even imagined that it is so toxic here. It was a big mistake to come here.
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@1dis+1nGL1fDw is dead right. Look in the HR policies, it's buried but it's there. Directors and above cannot receive less than a 3 merit score in their annual review. I would think senior director and above is probably higher. Must be nice to have it made like that!
Meanwhile the expectations on senior staff and principal engineers is astronomical.
It's ridiculous and toxic as he11.
They think that if they find people desperate enough for a low paycheck, that they'd also be willing to take any kind of abuse from management. But those people will wise up over time, and a new search for even more desperate people begins. It's a race to the bottom. What a disgrace.
- If upper management thought people wouldn't figure this out, they're id!ots.
- If upper management thought people wouldn't talk about it, they're id!ots.
- If upper management thought profits matter more than happy employees, they're id!ots.
- If upper management thinks they there is an infinite supply of bodies to cover their mistakes, they're id!ots.
They can go to Mexico, the South Pole, or Mars. They can't run away from their problems forever.
My director is constantly in meetings to collect status updates that he can present to VP's to boost his own image and reputation.He restricts flow of information to team members and peers to make himself more important.He promotes engineers who spent more time educating him than doing any work.
@1dis You pretty much described the PMIC team politics, HR involvement or lack of, and overall toxicity that is coming top down from the VP and his directors. I am sure it is similar in other departments as well.
The reason is clear as day.
A certain class of people, Sr Dir and above are designated as "protected". With the exception of the usual illegal business ethics behavior (accepting gifts, etc), and se-ual harassment, they are untouchable. Some Sr Dir / VP names are well-known in HR, because of the numbers of accumulating complaints, but they don't actually act on the complaints unless they put Q at legal jeopardy. Even the illegal acts like retaliation required hard proof, which can be hard to come by, because the weasels are sneaky enough about it to keep it verbal, not written, or agreements behind closed doors.
So for HR, fairness, risk of people quitting to escape their managers are not part of the math. Or are given a weight of ZERO.
That leaves a LOT of toxic behavior that goes unpunished. Doctoring people's performance review scores to keep them down, decoupling the scores from actual performance and using the numbers as trading points with other managers, INCREASING scores of people they choose to favor due to brown nosing. The managers themselves failing to allocate resources to a project, the managers themselves not accepting responsibility for failed projects, not even having a vision of any kind, the managers themselves buying and selling promotions for their people. What happens behind closed doors is really immoral, but they back each other up, protecting each other. And it's well know that managers from the same birth-country will help each other and protect each other. Hard to prove, but clear as day.
The toxicity starts from a small boys club, and spreads and infects from the inside. And upper upper management just turns an intentional blind eye.
This kind of behavior CAN happen in much smaller companies, but the odds are WAY less. The comradery and friendships made at smaller companies are WAY more. If people didn't put compensation as a priority, they'd end up working with better people at better companies. It's a lesson many (but not all) eventually learn.
Joined last october. It been so terrible that I dont even have words to explain.
I hate every minute here. Started to prepare, need to leave ASAP dont mind if TC reduces by half.
I felt exactly the same, so I left. I could not even imagine company culture can be this toxic before I join Qualcomm.
When San Diego companies have no place left to go, lack of innovative and creative management they go to Tijuana.
It is their death knell.
What is left is a carcass left to be cut up and sold.
Anyone hired after 2010 has no idea what working for a good Qualcomm is. You have no idea what it means to be giving options that are more than your salary… no idea what it means to become a millionaire just by doing your job…. It’s sad but you walked into a toxic place … hasn’t become more toxic …. You just didn’t know how to survive