Qualcomm reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(10,974 total reviews)
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Cristiano Amon

69% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Qualcomm has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 10,974 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
3.0
Jul 2, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits plan - fully employer paid, unless your spouse works for a company that also offers insurance. Fairly good work-life balance, at least for hourly employees. Salaried employees seem to be expected to be available 24/7. Good pay.

Cons

Under the new CEO, there has been a company-wide mandate to make sure that everyone is titled and paid "appropriately". While that may sound relatively innocuous, in reality it seems to have been an excuse to cut costs via layoffs. It also seems to have lead to quite a bit of micromanaging, which is quite a change from how things used to be - employees used to have more freedom to get their jobs done as they saw fit. Add in an increasing number of seemingly pointless status meetings, and the job started to feel less about pleasing customers and getting things done than it did about pleasing management and focusing on process over results. Reviews are done not so much on an individual basis, but rather on an "enforced curve". All people of title X are measured against each other, and there's only an allowance for a certain percentage of those with title X to receive merit increases, bonuses, or RSUs. Management seems to approach reviews with an eye towards focusing on negatives in an effort to keep bonuses down.

2.0
Jun 21, 2015

Recent Changes over the last few years

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Can't really say there have been many pro's over the last few years

Cons

- Big company mentality - out for the company and the executives not the work bee's - Benefits changing (while probably still good by some standards) - issue is the negative benefit changes only affect the work bee's - these changes are not going to affect the executives. So those with the higher salaries will still pay next to nothing and those that work harder will have to pay out of their pocket - less opportunity to move around within the company - less projects - nothing exciting in the pipe line

2.0
Jun 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

- a lot to learn for those willing - benefits are ok. used to be much better - salaries are so so.

Cons

- Health insurance significantly worthened, introducing huge deductibles from 2016 - new review process disregards accomplishments: bonus/stock grants and salary increases are flattened to the HR tables; no variation based on accomplishments. - no opportunities even for the superstars. - QCT deadlines unrealistic and squeezed YoY, process beauracracy increase and no resource allocation for timely achievement - benefits trend is downwards YoY

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