Looks like a low strike for a company of that size and credibility, but , in my opinion they will get away with this plan. The way things stand right now I see a lot of Qualcomm folks updating their CVs and taking a shot at Apple.
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I don't really understand the negative for qcom here. Completion is good . Especially the one that doesn't happen in the market you are competing in ( qcom will sell to Android phones ) and apple and Intel competing in iOS market. Intel seems to be the real threat to qcom in modem space and this move from apple should weaken Intel more than qcom.
Apple will hire the laid off Q engineers as their jobs are moved to IN and CN. A win for Q engineers, A win for Apple, and a win for the City of San Diego.
Qcom has employee friendly policy. Unfortunately, HR is on the management side to promote toxic work environment. Ignore all precious feedbacks from many frustrated good engineers. HR is pretending that all feedbacks are carefully reviewed. That's all BS! I witness many good engineers departing qcom with frustration. How can a department believes a single sr. Director can replace a group of motivated/innovative engineers? Can Qcom's success just count on work from a single sr. Director? Some sr. Directors are in hibernation mode for over 10 years, and just blindly following orders from their boss. No vision nor directions to the groups they managed. Amazon's boss is correct. All companies will eventually fail, and only good employees can help delay that. This is my 2 cents. I am sure Qcom HR will ignore this anyway.
Apple will poach strategically to build up Apple’s modem efforts and to weaken Qualcomm’s talent pool.
I know of many good engineers departing the toxic qcom working environment and join Apple. This is qcom management fault for creating a very toxic environment.
@1ipw Literally all of those companies you listed are actively poaching Qualcomm engineers.
From what I have seen so far Qualcomm employees struggle to land on jobs at big tech companies. The average Qualcomm engineer won't be considered at Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook.
Just makes Q offshore and geo-$haft quicker and rely less and less on SD.
But in the short term, it might mean the April announcements of more layoffs is postponed to late summer.
Just bring the Q disease to Apple
How is this a bad thing? San Diego desperately needs more competition in the tech sector.
Didn't we once upon a time open an office near a TI DSP design center to recruit their talent?