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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2.0
May 2, 2014

Going South

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Big stable company, so less risk of layoffs

Cons

too much politics and cutthroat people below average salary no scope for growth - too many people entrenched at middle and higher levels

1.0
Apr 8, 2014

Worst experience

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This company has very good name in industry and the technology that company works on is cutting edge for the industry.

Cons

Work pressure is hectic, work life balance is poor. People call at night times asked to come to office if you do not they will show all reasons in review. Management is worst even to complain about any such incidents. There are many flaws in recruitment, people at same level are recruited at different level even the candidate had given 5 rounds of interview placed at lower level compared to candidate who given one telephonic. The moment employee starts questioning review gets affected and simple answer given by management is do not compare with others. You just cannot stay with this company looking at company name in industry.

2.0
Oct 18, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, very talented engineers, not too bureaucratic for a company of its size

Cons

At least 50% of the managers are totally incompetent as managers. They are busy playing politics all day long and trying to force their agenda on others. Most managers act like individual contributors whose directs exist for the sole purpose of cleaning their leftovers. Agreeing on expectations, providing feedback, asking instead of commanding and coaching is something I haven't seen from any manager in this company. This is all a result of a poor management culture and promotion for the wrong reasons. The organizational hierarchy is so vertical that most managers have fewer than 4 directs. This means you need to to fill an awful lot of management positions from a pool for technocrats, how well can this turn out to be? Senior management is completely detached. To illustrate it, 16,000 company employees (60%) report to a single manager who sits 3 levels below the CEO.

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