Qualcomm reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(10,961 total reviews)
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Cristiano Amon

70% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Qualcomm has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 10,961 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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3.0
Oct 16, 2015

Sr Hardware Engineer

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Pros

- Competitive pay for SD area - Lots of great people - Lots to learn technically and smart people to learn from - Interesting products to work on - Flexible hours - Fitness facilities in almost every building - Great city to live and work in

Cons

- Non-optimal management structure (too many cooks in the kitchen) - Going through cost reduction, so lots of penny pinching - Engineering teams being outsourced, or under threat of outsourcing to India - Bell curved performance reviews - Promotion quotas to limit number of promotions per review cycle (in some teams) - Arbitrary "minimum-time-served" promotion prerequisites regardless of whether employees deserve it or not (in some teams) - Executive management taking vast sums of money as bonuses and skimping on bonuses for the little guys - Very large company, so you get buried in corporate culture and bureaucracy at times - Career advancement has a ceiling in a lot of teams due to top heavy nature of this company - Recurring layoff rounds lately

3.0
Oct 9, 2015

Life at Qualcomm

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Pros

High salary, good benefits, RSU's and bonus. Very good work environment with great facilities. Depending on title you will get an office. Cutting edge technology

Cons

Very political. Politics is driven by the Indian mafia. Management has been promoted on the basis of race and technical ability alone. Ability to lead and manage people does not come into it. So the company has ended up with a lot of senior geeks and no leaders.

1.0
Sep 8, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is average. Was a stable safe company. Stock awards were good for the top performers. Was nice travelling to San Diego from time to time.

Cons

I get ashamed of how rubbish and technically incompetent are some of the managers, don't understand how they were ever promoted. That doesn't speak very high of the top managers. Executive management think they understand the market, they obviously don't, they have been negligent at best. The environment is pretty toxic, nobody cares about anybody, you need to put your limits and set the expectations right from the first day or face being exploited. The company is focusing into moving most teams to India, low quality but will work for peanuts and long hours, I am sure Qualcomm will learn the hard way, just rubbish will come out of the India projects, there is no innovation.

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