Company in decline - Senior Engineer Qualcomm Employee Review

2.0
Jun 19, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

- Work with a lot of very talented engineers working on high quality technology. - ESPP provides good opportunities to boost investment returns, although the stock has gone sideways the past few years. - Depending on the team, we get a lot of flexibility to choose what to work on, so we can be exposed to a lot of different aspects of the technologies.

Cons

- Management has been significantly cutting back on benefits, bonuses, and promotions recently - Health care benefits used to be one of the largest selling points, but for 2016 they've been slashed back to being clearly below our peer tech companies. Worse, HR seems to insist on hiding this, trying to make it seem like things are actually being changed in our favor. Very sleazy feeling watching them claim added benefits when you can easily calculate that it will cost you more money. - Employee morale is plummeting and the executives seem completely disconnected and unaware - HR is rigid and inflexible, so it doesn't matter how you perform or what your background is, you have to follow their timelines and structures. This makes it feel like hard work isn't rewarded and encourages people to just skirt by. - Company seems to have shifted from investing in the future to stay on top of tech trends to cutting back, playing financial games, and focusing solely on the demands of short-sighted Wall Street investment firms

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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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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