QUALCOMM CDMA Reviews

Pros

Top notch products and highly technical environment.
People with good attitude, knowledge and willingness to help creates a good environment.

Cons

Tight deadlines and targets.
Work pressure and peer pressure can be stressful at times.
Dynamic work environment forces people to stay up to date.

Pros

Pay, Flexi work environment, challenging work, good peers, talented work force, nice hikes and facilities, career growth, onsite opportunities, company stability.

Cons

SW quality process needs to be improved, clear vision needs to be communicated to employees,
Job rotation needs to improve, IOS needs more attention.

Advice to Senior Management

SW quality process needs to be improved, clear vision needs to be communicated to employees,
Job rotation needs to improve, IOS needs more attention.

Pros

1. Promissing future
2. Relatively high salary

Cons

1. Promotion is limited because many good human resources are saturated.

Pros

Many opportunities to work on latest technology.
Working hours are somewhat flexible.
Generally, it is a collaborative culture.
Many graduate classes offered on campus.
Competitive compensation when considering stock compensation .
San Diego is a nice area.

Cons

Cost of living in San Diego (California) is high.
Too many meetings, and several after hours meetings
Several layers of management.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should do whatever it takes to retain high performing, sharp employees.
Stick to what Qualcomm does best, drive the technology instead of just following the trend/customers. Take risks.

Pros

Good support from management that allows engineers to follow up on items deemed important. Qualcomm also allows a flexible schedule as long as your work is completed on time.

Cons

A lot of the perks which used to be in place which made Qualcomm such a fun place to work have gone away.
Many engineers at Qualcomm work well beyond the standard 40 hour work week and that is what is expected of engineers in order to get ahead.

Pros

QCT has one of the best health benefit. Good RSU bonus.
There are lots of work to do and you can learn from them.

Cons

you need to be political to promote and be recognized
Be ready to work at home during night time.
Not easy to balance between work life and personal life

Advice to Senior Management

Please don't evaluate engineers by their e-mails and words but by their work, results, and maturity. Need to remove political culture.

Pros

Great company and products and people

Cons

Hard work at the expense of personal time away from family

Pros

Cutting edge technology development
Many generations ahead
Very many benefits compared to other companies
Good bi-year bonuses

Cons

QCT is a workaholic place and putting in long hours is the norm rather than an exception
Top heavy
Hiring is shifting towards India

Advice to Senior Management

Qualcomm seems to have a passion to bring in external hires at high executive position instead of looking to promote in-house talent. It is top heavy and heading that direction.

Pros

Good technical talent and cutting edge technology, fast paced and folks take pride in their accomplishments. Decent work life balance and lot of training courses for internal training.

Cons

Low growth opportunities, politics and favoritism, management not focussed on employees growth and creating new challenges.

Advice to Senior Management

Make necessary changes in management to align the teams to achieve the goals, listen to employees at all levels and encourage an open culture for new ideas and improving things. Reduce politics and buddy system, find the true performances and value creators and reward them. Management shouldn't reward fire fighting or senior management whose style is just yelling and screaming....

Pros

Great people.
Casual atmosphere
Tried to do some nice things for company

Cons

Management did not inform employees of their vision or goals. On contrary, seemed to be a secret.

Advice to Senior Management

Better communication, remember rewards and some recognition is important for people who are taking time away from their families to work overtime.