Ex Qualcomm employees. Were you terminated under a PIP or through constructive Termination? A class action is forming. Stay tuned on this thread.
Many employees have complained about the unfair practices and forcing of a bell curve in the new workday system.
Looked awfully suspect to me. A bunch of good/high performing, well respected >50yr olds laid off near me. Seems they were 'averaged out' by also chopping some ranomd 30s somethings.
I guess this gives legal cover, easy enough to recruit/replace some average 30s folks or offshore; legal looking based on 'we didnt just pick oldies' but effectively sloughed off of the expensive oldies.
Rather than looking at individual oldies let go; would be more instructive to look; over the last 2 yrs has the average age of employees mysteriously dropped a whole lot ? I suspect, "hell yeah".
Has the average salary dropped 20-30% at the same time ? Hell yeah !
And why the pissing hell does Q have this completely skewed racial make-up. H1Bs and lack of American engineers simply doesnt explain it away. Sad.
Illegal ? Hard to prove; but surely Q-shady-sh--.
this thread is perverbial dead cat bounce
Pippitty doo DAH
Pippitty A
lawsuit soon will be going away.
Plenty of sunshine coming our way!
-2ocg Same for our department. All but 1 canned in 2018 were > 50 and half were top performers with excellent reviews in recent years. It made no sense other than to "make the company younger" and save on salaries.
-2nbz (Bob) Wrong. I’m an ex employee who has a brain. Ask an adult to explain the concept to you. As I have stated before, I only come here while taking huge dumps because the suffering of those still there amuses me and that’s the only time I think about Qualcomm. Cheers.
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-2ofs is EXACTLY the kind of tool left skulking the halls at Qualcomm. Unfortunately it is not a binary black and white issue. The law can’t be summed up by “terminate at will”.
terminate at will. NEXT!
-2ocg Your post raises some concerns if you are confirming there is a deliberate pattern of laying off employees based on age. I’m certain that the greedy money worshipping CFO casts his gaze on employees who have a higher pay because he doesn’t value experience. This is short sighted to think employees are fungible, but it achieves his goal of cost savings to appease the board and shareholders at the expense of skillset. Yes you can replace more experienced (older), higher paid employees with H1B or less experienced bodies, but generally the company will suffer in the long term. You get what you pay for, and experience costs money.
It is my observation that we laid off the low performers during the 2015 and 2016 layoffs. This is accurate for the department I am in. When 2018 layoffs hit, there weren't low performers left. What my department appears to have done was layoff older and higher paid engineers. Almost everyone 60+ was laid off. 50+ was hit hard. Under 50 was hardly hit, if at all.
@1huj is a mo--n.
RSU vesting is there to retain employees.
It works the same way with every company.
If you wanted your 100K, you should have stayed until it vested. Just like every single other tech company you dumbfvxk.
Interesting post. I was never on a PIP but received a much lower rating months before the 2018 layoff. The odd thing is I know I did a much better job than the year before and was expecting to get at least the same rating.
Conclusion: ratings are used to manipulate strategic planning.
Interestingly I did get better job ($50k+ raise) but had to pass extensive technical questions and testing. From what I understand they did not check my Qualcomm reference at all as the companies not trusted in the general tech community.
And yes I’m still watching this board. I am still angry as I had nearly $100k in unvested RSU revoked when laid off. In my opinion that is the same as stealing.
-1lzy Spoken like a true Qualcommer. Pay attention job seekers - this is the attitude there. Money first, people second. No heart or soul about those with families laid off right before the holidays. You’re a “pansie” or a “snowflake” if you have negative emotions after being laid off as a Christmas present. Ooh, -1lzy, you’re such a tough, wise, hard core business person who will surely thank Qualcomm for the valuable life lesson as they hand you a box with your sh!t in it. Just another Internet tough guy.
Everyone is not a superstar and don't all get a trophy. This is how you drive performance pansies, move on and learn.
As a manager I had to participate in the forced bell curve. No idea if legal or not, but we were all directed by HR to hit the bell curve with merit numbers. Really s---ed seeing great engineers get grades (merit numbers) lowered just cause we had to put people to the left.
PIPs target mostly older employees, and it is a process designed by management and HR to save on the cost of layoffs.
Everyone, including the state government knows exactly what is going on.
I was also a victim and it was not a fair or just process. I am willing to testify.
I too was a victim of that bell curve thing, rating adjusted to mean.
I'll be coming forward to testify. I saw this process first hand.
I would fire -zwo for making no fxcking sense at all, the inability to tell a story, a misuse of “you’re”, and the failure to use punctuation or be remotely literate. Poor even by the Internet’s standards. Partial credit will be given if English is a second language but likely they are just dumb.
Fully agree with AWI! One of my friends who was working with NXP and gained lots of business revenue for NXP but when NXP bought Freescale he was laid off due to his team leader was coming from Freescale and told him why I decided to lay you off that’s exactly you’re lengacy NXP guy not from Freescale. My friend recorded this conversation and sent to their country manager whom my friend thought to be a country manager is supposed compeletely fair but in the contrary not, he got fired and told “I’m from Freescale too”
I’m not the original poster, but...
If Qualcomm is classifying/fabricating terminations as “performance related” instead of cost saving layoffs to avoid reporting under WARN, well, that’s a problem.
The “you are quite insane” person sounds a lot like the delusional koolaid drinker roaming the Qualcomm hallways. Is it that hard to believe that Qualcomm has done something shady? Really? After all the super shady sh!t in just the last few years alone?
You are quite insane. Your employer can terminate you for any reason at any time. What law do you believe was broken?