our descent has begun - Staff Hardware Engineer Qualcomm Employee Review

2.0
May 3, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits. Decent salary. Some of the real engineers are really good.

Cons

Work overload. Too much micro-management. To many meetings. No path for career progress - to many people entrenched in their positions. The engineers who have become managers are useless and just add fat to the middle and top of the company. Horrible "free coffee".

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Great design team. Learn a lot in the project. Great resources for self motivated technical improvement.

Cons

Big wave of talented engineers leaving in some critical departments. CEO lacks responsibility on the company development. CEO and CFO have been selling their stocks a lot every year.

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