QUALCOMM Reviews

Pros

Generous compensation, happy people who want to be here and are glad to help, unlimited learning opportunities (library, online QC courses, QC instructor led classes, etc).

Cons

Still encounter some people who are overstressed and unhappy most of the time, which can spread like a plague to others. Fortunately these people are VERY few and far between.

Pros

There are alot of smart, hardworking people at Qualcomm, and comraderie and support among coworkers. The pay and the benefits are great.

Cons

The company is very heavy with mid-level managers, many who have been there for years and promoted well beyond their skill level. To compensate, the company hires more skilled employees in below them, making the mid-level managers, who these people ultimately report to, feel threatened. Since they are not about to leave--they could never retain their title level and pay elsewhere--there is no place for the newer, more skilled employees to move up. Managers have absolute control, can get away with horrendous verbal abuse, as can any employee who comes under "special protection" of a manager. Human Reousrces is horrible--they will back up an out of control manager and destroy anyone who complains in order to protect the company from lawsuits. There is constant reorganization to hide problem managers, but the individual problems never get addressed, and continue to recur. Anyone who speaks up about it is punished.

Advice to Senior Management

You have alot of great, hardworking people at your company. Treat them with respect.

Pros

A lot of growth and learning opportunities. Very dynamic workplace.

Cons

It is becoming like a regular big company, instituting bureaucracies in may stages.

Pros

Qualcomm is the right company and is in the right industry (wireless), which is in the throes of its golden age. This is the right time for anyone to embark on a career at Qualcomm.

Cons

Qualcomm is a large company and an industry leader. It suffers from the same fallibility as any technology market leader would.

Advice to Senior Management

Management has to be aggressive in its approach to breaking into computing. There is a lot more the incumbents - market leader Intel and minion AMD have to lose than Qualcomm has to gain in computing market share. So it is a weary competitor prone to huge cost inefficiencies. Hence understand the competition and fight it vigorously.

Pros

Flexible hours, dedicated group members and a great working environment.

Cons

No direct contact with officials from Qualcomm. I worked in a lab at GA Tech creating proof of concepts for their Augmented Reality demonstrations and did not get to speak with anyone from the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Come and see what is being done for you. The people who are actually doing the work would like to see the reaction that you have, rather than being told about it.

Pros

work life balance and ownership

Cons

compensation increments, look up to india employee life.

Advice to Senior Management

need to concentrate on india benefits, perks and HR facilities

Pros

Qualcomm is a stable company, Benefits are great, Salary is decent

Cons

The company is riddled with politics. If you want a promotion, then you need to sucking up. Your achievements and effort does not count at all.

Advice to Senior Management

Fire all the managers and hire more engineers to do the work

Pros

I love Qualcomm and my family love San Diego.

Cons

Rather low salaray considering experiences and backgrounds.

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

Flexible work hours, good insurance and benefits, good work life balance, innovative work and good scope for career expansion and intra-company project shifting

Cons

Occasional strenuous project workload, work culture varies from project to project, average salary, Poor rewards for innovation - does not motivate employees to take that extra stride and innovate and add to IPR

Advice to Senior Management

Increase pay scale and definitely rethink the reward model for innovation by patent filing

Pros

High level of respect for the individual, a very high quality of leadership

Cons

I don't have any so far