Average place to work for SW engineer - Senior Software Engineer Qualcomm Employee Review

3.0
Mar 29, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

1) Great products 2) good work life balance 3) awesome location (San Diego)

Cons

1) Poor pay for industry standards and w.r.t profit the company makes 2) too many managers and less engineers 3) low value to good technical work and more value to just making it work somehow

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5.0
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Pros

Competitive Pay and good team

Cons

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4.0
Jun 27, 2026
Recommend
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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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