Sr. Staff - Senior Staff Engineer/Manager Qualcomm Employee Review

2.0
Jun 7, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You live in San Diego.

Cons

Too stressful! HR has been trying to improve work life balance but the culture is suffering from the vicious circle. If you don't work late night and weekends your review and bonus suffers. Despite the lip service "we must reward productivity and not long hours". Too many a holes are being promoted despite the CEO's claim "we don't promote a-holes". HR does not protect the individuals from retaliation from higher ups unless where the retaliation might create legal problems (e.g. sexual harassment)

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Pros

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