Qualcomm reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(10,998 total reviews)
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Cristiano Amon

69% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Qualcomm has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 10,998 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Qualcomm employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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11K reviews
2.0
Jan 14, 2014
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Pros

At the working cross - functional level, the teamwork is phenomenal. In fact, I would say that is the key to Qualcomm's success has been the quality of the teams executing. There is a lot of mutual respect and get the job done can do attitude. A lot of smart people that work incredible hours to achieve success. I have nothing but good things to say about the people i worked with on a day-by-day basis. Good compensation and benefits.

Cons

In some departments, the management chain is dysfunctional. In my particular experience, some of us at the working level were excluded and isolated from information from above but at the same time, being held accountable to act with that information. VP and SVP levels clearly lack leadership skills or the ability to leverage the people under them in an effective, unified team. Again, this is not universal across Qualcomm. It all depends on which department you end up.

3.0
Oct 6, 2013
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Pros

Dynamic work environment, industry leader, job security, good healthcare benefits,

Cons

Qualcomm has become a large company - Visibility rather than actual contribution determines career advancement here thesedays. Pay is average, career advancement is very slow in some divisions/groups, very long hours at work.

2.0
Sep 28, 2013

Limited Career Growth

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Pros

- Learn a lot initially - San Diego is a great place to live

Cons

- Limited career growth - if you request a different project after completing your current assignment, you are discouraged and given boring tasks - Expected to work on one project and only project for entire duration at Qualcomm - Lots of politics - people take credit for work you do, ask for help behind directors/VPs - Line management - your review, bonus and raise are determined by a third party whom you see only during review period. Your manager/tech lead has very little impact during the bonus/promotion meetings. - Compensation is very low compared to salary in Bay Area. San Diego is not that much cheaper to live - New innovation in hardware only. As a software engineer you will only be responsible for bug fixes and hacks the hardware and system team will reincorporate into the next design] - No culture. No team building events, no company events. Teams are very distant, everyone is doing their own thing. Team members don't even eat lunch together most of the time! In the 3 years I have been here, my team has only had 1 team building event and there have only been 2 company events, 1 for a 25 year anniversary

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