Why not go through personnel files and find anyone who spent more than 7 years in a title and find out why they haven’t moved up. Is it the employee who isn’t getting promoted for a reason, or the manager who is promoting favored individuals? That would provide at least a 5% cut right there, if not more.
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I heard they are sending all H1s back home to work. Less trouble and expense. They plan to offer some remote a chance to return to San Diego. All other remote will be let go. And several offices will be closed, like Texas and North Carolina. Some International offices will close at the end of the year.
They should lay off all these under 35 id--ts who think they work hard going in circles, but no ounce of real responsibility, have not invented any groundbreaking solutions, just another headcount pawn di-king around and complaining.
The company would actually run better, less issues, less drama, if we keep only over 40 around to get real work done the right way the first time.
Not the sh-t code thrown out by mostly incompetent graduate mill deadbeats who are not really true engineers and need safe spaces to caress their hurt emotions.
As someone who was let go in 2018... this is correct.... the main demographic was age and length of service.
"Let's face it, old people are generally the highest paid and least productive engineers. Doesn't matter what they did 15 years ago."
They came from higher standards than the garbage that we have today. They are giants compared to the present weasels. They created something. Today most of the money comes from cheap bound labor or stealing people's information and selling it to advertisers like what google or facebook does. For the d-mb and d-mber, math and statistics have not changed much over the last century. I'll wait until the elite universities start firing all their old professors. Ignorance is bliss.
Let's face it, old people are generally the highest paid and least productive engineers. Doesn't matter what they did 15 years ago. What matters is what they're going to do tomorrow.
Unless you are one of those rare people who remain sharp and motivated into your later career years, you're not going to be contributing as much as the 35 year-old who makes 65% of what you're paid.
By the way, I'm old, so I know from experience. I certainly wasn't earning the larger sums of money I made at QCOM during my last 2-3 years.
"Managers shouldn't be exempt from layoffs. They'll continue to throw their engineers under the bus in order to save their own skin."
it is not going to change unless the investors are very unhappy
I have a crazy idea:
Instead of asking managers to pick who to layoff, why not:
- Go through HR records, find all the people who quit or transferred, look at their manager, and find and identify the manager(s) that people are running away from the most. Perhaps those are the employees that are the weak link, causing the most damage in terms of bleeding talent and should be cut.
- Go through HR records, find the people who most complaints have been filed against them.
Managers shouldn't be exempt from layoffs. They'll continue to throw their engineers under the bus in order to save their own skin.
And keep brainless kids like the author of this topic? Actually, people over 40 are safe due to CA labour law.
Why would they do that? Only people over 40 have invented the patents that actually make money for Qualcomm.
No aver 30...