I have seen lot of attrition in S/W engineers in last 1 year so I think QC may not be as over staffed in S/W...does S/W folks have better chance to survive? what you guys think?
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Software engineers are the main slaves at Qualcomm. When the plantation is on fire, the first thing you do is take the lowest-tier people to the back lot and put them on the firing squad. There is no software engineer above director at Qualcomm. These people will be slaughtered in the highest numbers
As no more custom cpu so it should impact h/w more ,also it seems QCT is trying to reduce footprint in chip business and upcoming high margin projects are s/w heavy as no margin in h/w,I think h/w folks should be in more trouble...............thats what it looks like me.
I think SW engineers will be more impacted. On an average there are about 4 SW engineers for every 1 HW engineer. And QCOM is a HW company. They are reducing the number of builds to code / maintain and that will directly affect the number of SW engineers required to provide support.
I think it's fishy that one of the SW SVPs left so recently. Don't you?
most impact in s/w will be on integration,test and CE teams as not many build releases will be required going further..
S/W dev folks should be safe as QC will always need them for other projects as they are portable. I think most of h/w chip design,testers and support staff will be impacted.