QUALCOMM Reviews

Pros

this is a great place to work, good salary, work culture, benefits. San diego weather is awesome as well, ha.

Cons

Laid back, reactive nature, but that's changing. Would be good to have more socializing amongst employees. Also, bad office space, too cramped.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more proactive, improve office space and employee interactions through social events etc. Also, make the company more democratic, I.ie. involve the employees more in decision making.

Pros

Great benefit package for everyone

Cons

Engineers are treated like kings,

Advice to Senior Management

Move all jobs to San Diego

Pros

salary, job security, nice city, good weather

Cons

outlook of wireless communications is not that good

Advice to Senior Management

treat engineers well, give more credit to engineer other than managers

Pros

Very smart people and great work culture.
Good benefits and compensation.
Sufficiently challenging and interesting projects.
Enough opportunity for growth.

Cons

Staffing personnel not the most professional at times.
Less than desired documentation and support.
Significant amount of bureaucracy in organization.

Advice to Senior Management

HR/Staffing could be more professional in their work.
Compensation could be reconsidered to be best in industry than just being competitive at maximum.

Pros

great benefits, not just talking about healthcare

Cons

Long hours & high expectations

Pros

-Great environment (food, gyms, etc..)
-Tons of benefits
-Decent pay for business functions
-Great people
-Work/life balance

Cons

-Low career advancement
-Pigeonholed functions
-Lack of influence on general business
-Lack of innovation in business functions
-You feel like you are the second class

Advice to Senior Management

Cut down on the business functions, and do not aggregate business people together, rather have them work along side the engineers. Include marketing and finance people on the same conversations about the future of the company as the engineers.

Pros

have good benefit and salary

Cons

too much politics and very low productivity

Advice to Senior Management

layoff 50% middle level manager who do/know nothing but on meeting all the day.

Pros

Decent Pay. Very good location - San Diego CA USA. fair development. housing provided for interns. good weekend activities

Cons

loads of people. no RnD work for Interns. commitment required. not much scope for development and learning. fair overall. good..

Pros

The job is very stable for Qualcomm, don't have to think about losing job. Also Qualcomm is the leader in the industry.

Cons

Low salary and slow promotion. As a very successful hightech company, the salary is not as good as it should be compared to the same type of companies in the same industry.

Advice to Senior Management

adjust the salary for the market salary. Timely promotion is needed for many groups. And the work load has to be adjusted to a reasonable level.

Pros

Low Level Design/ Issues and software development.

Cons

Code Management could be better.

Advice to Senior Management

Better ways to keep track of code changes.