QUALCOMM Reviews in San Diego, CA Area

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

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

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

great benefits, not just talking about healthcare

Cons

Long hours & high expectations

Pros

* You learn a lot about wireless domain.
* Great health insurance plan

Cons

* Less Pay
* Extremely poor management
* Lack of transparency
* Too much stress

Advice to Senior Management

Too much managerial politics is ruining the future, listen to engineers because they are the core of the organization. Many experience folks are leaving the organization because of this reason. The current development model is not sustainable, give more for development for better quality of code.

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

In san diego this is the best company to work for since there are not many options and among all other company it provides the best package and environment.

Cons

Salaries are not competitive. Bonus are bad and advancement opportunity is not much. Also, unless you know people well, its hard to move from one department to another.

Pros

Best city to live and raise kids. reasonable house market. good benefit.

Cons

only a few high tech companies available in San Diego city