Qualcomm Employee Reviews about "work life balance"
Updated Dec 4, 2021

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Reviews about "work life balance"
Return to all Reviews- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Great technologies and learning
Nov 2, 2022 - Lead Engineer, Senior in Hyderābād, SindRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
You get to work amongst smartest of brains
Cons
The work life balance goes pretty bad time to time and you might end up burning out yourself more often
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Using cutting edge technology. Company is growing very well specially in 5G.
Cons
Nothing as such but if we consider 1 than work life balance is not so great but still manageable.
- Former Employee★★★★★
It was great and I learnt a lot
Feb 6, 2012 - Interim Engineering in BengaluruRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
The company believes in life work balance and they have a lot of training programs for employees which is great.
Cons
At times in the year the work load may become a little too high because Qualcomm is very aggressive in their product schedules.
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Imbalance work life
Apr 29, 2023 - Senior Staff Engineer in BengaluruRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Salary Technology Benifits Stable Focus shifted Product diversity
Cons
Worst work life balance More Politics than technical Overlapped projects Execution Focus than career development Less collaboration between teams
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Losing traction as patents begin to expire.
Mar 27, 2013 - Staff Engineer in San Diego, CARecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Excellent cash, market and historical patent position in CDMA wireless. Enormous potential for continued leadership in mobile markets.
Cons
Cost and schedule rule with quality and work life balance suffering severely in certain areas. 'Yes men' more and more the key to advancement and survival. Delusions of divinity in certain areas. Better opportunities developing elsewhere.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Good learning , growth in career with tradeoff on your personal time and health
Feb 18, 2023 - Lead Senior Engineer in ChennaiRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Good learning on latest Techs and methodologies. Good management and support vey Good pay
Cons
Improper flows and highly dynamic environments. Very less work life balance Loose most of your weekends in working through out the year
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Feedback from a long term employee
Aug 20, 2015 - Staff Engineer in San Diego, CARecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
A employee oriented company. As a market leader and pioneering company employees get opportunities to work on state of the art technology and tools. Apart from periods of intense work phase most of the time it provides good work/life balance.
Cons
Salary and other financial benefits is not very good compared to other comparable companies. It is unclear as to where the company is heading towards and the work spirit is increasingly going down.
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Very smart and focused people to work with. Lots of resources available for research, professional development, etc. Very open and enjoyable environment to work in.
Cons
Work life balance is very poor during 'crunch' times and could be improved in general. Work hours and work load is highly team dependent.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Works challenges your skills at every aspect
Feb 4, 2019 - Senior Engineer in HyderābādRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
->Good work ->Leader in Mobile segment. ->Good pay out and bonus. ->Freedom to choose your work.
Cons
->Work life balance is almost zero you will end up working on weekends. ->Almost 14hr a work on a average day work .
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Good people to work with Work-Life Balance is ok usually (depends on how well and smartly you manage your work) Reputed company to work for Great opportunity to learn working with the best in the industry Open door policy, easy to approach leads, peers and juniors Minimum 2 team building events per year Good gymnasium and trainers
Cons
bureaucracy politics favoritism bad and complex health plans less bonus, salary hikes slow promotion in general weekend work during product/software/hardware releases
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