I see three very accurate to the point reviews of Qualcomm in glassdoor. I wish HR would really look at them and try to fix the issues. THey pretty much sum up the current concerns with employees going on for a long time.
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Qualcomm-RVW7399497.htm
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Qualcomm-RVW7303867.htm
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Qualcomm-RVW7396243.htm
This is an "opportunity" for HR/ real functional upper management to get rid of the deadwoods in all level of management. They exist in every level. Most are old timers (14 - 15 + years) others lesser years. Once they make it to a specific level, senior staff and/or above, they just play dead and collect status and spend their time at work literally barking and screaming at other subordinates. Using insults and fear of embarrassment(?) by CC'ing every possible useless upper level management to emails when an issue is reported and they need someone to look at the issue. They spend their time pointing fingers, assigning blame, and terrorize folks to work over weekend with threat that the issue is already "escalated". How about empathy for the poor engineer who is already on it working long hours to fix it while being continually bombarded with questions from management as to why did it break to begin with. And while he is analyzing and fixing issues, these deadwood status takers, simply find a way to cook up a pretty "story" to present to VP/SVP to cover their rear end... HR folks, regardless of who you layoff, please do your own company a favor and (re)evaluate these management (specially old timers... they are already paralyzed and useless and still fighting to keep riding the gravy train)
This is an "opportunity" for HR/ real functional upper management to get rid of the deadwoods in all level of management. They exist in every level. Most are old timers (14 - 15 + years) others lesser years. Once they make it to a specific level, senior staff and/or above, they just play dead and collect status and spend their time at work literally barking and screaming at other subordinates. Using insults and fear of embarassment(?) by CC'ing every possible useless upper level management to emails when an issue is reported and they need someone to look at the issue. They spend their time pointing fingers, assigning blame, and terrorize folks to work over weekend with threat that the issue is already "escalated". How about empathy for the poor bloak who is already on it working long hours to fix it while being continouly bombarded with questions from management as to why did it break to begin with. And while he is analysing and fixing issues, these deadwood status takers, simply find a way to cook up a pretty "story" to present to VP/SVP to cover their rear end... HR folks, regardless of who you layoff, please do your own company a favor and (re)evaluate these management (specially old timers... they are already paralyzed and useless and still fighting to keep riding the gravy train)
Politics, Politics, Politics! Qualcomm is out of control!
very good reviews indeed
@Anonymous127356: It is surfacing now because we are tight on cash. We could afford these inefficiencies earlier due to good profit but now with declining profits it's no longer justifiable.
Lots of 5 star reviews since 7/22 announcement. Very odd. Guess people are upbeat about earnings disasters and layoffs
From what I have seen these folks"getting by with minimal" work are mostly and largely (but not all) ones who have been here for 15+ years. They keep getting promoted regardless of merit..ex: person leading the power team getting promoted to VP even though one of our major customer loss was due to power issues. The reason these comments are surfacing now is to ensure HR does their job to decide where the cut/layoff needs to be made!
why are you guys waking up now since the layoffs were announced.... all this has been going on for years..... politics between sites, ridiculous reviews, hiring people to increase headcounts, creating meaningless projects to grab more people, trying to bilittle other groups to make oneself look better, worrying about the next review ....so on... the problem is that "wrong people got into the management roles"..... and started getting by with minimal work....