good place, bad upper management - Anonymous employee Qualcomm Employee Review

4.0
Jun 10, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

fun people to work with, cool stuff to work on, cutting edge and great atmosphere. Was a great place to learn about the computer industry, boulder is an awesome location

Cons

Upper management does not know how to keep best engineers around. Massive layoffs happened and yet they were recruiting for identical positions on India.

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Pros

Great benefits, the pay is like okay. Some cool reimbursement programs and health centers on campus

Cons

Career progression and culture varies extremely depending on department. Some parts almost set you up for failure and it's difficult to gain new skills. Lots of qualcomm teams are too scared to explore new technologies and migrate to state of the art services and are comfortable in sticking with old technology for familiarity. Also, HR does nothing if a coworker makes you uncomfortable.

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