Come to this company if you are retiring next year - Senior Software Engineer Qualcomm Employee Review

1.0
Feb 27, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits, good work life balance

Cons

Work is boring. Nothing to learn after 6 month. No respect to engineers. People get into groups and attack each other. People get promoted based on who they know. Smart engineers are leaving. Meaningless meetings. There are managers doing all the design themselves and tell engineers get the things done and ask no question. Then they can use that pathetic information to exchange with other managers in those endless meetings and and gain "visibility" and quick promotions. Benefits and work life balance is good and you think above is not a problem. But it's the problem.

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5.0
Jun 11, 2026
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Pros

Great company. Corporate teams always striving to be the best which is a great atmosphere to be in and learn from.

Cons

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3.0
Jun 2, 2026
Recommend
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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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