Was a great place to work... but it is going down hill. - Senior Software Engineer Qualcomm Employee Review

4.0
19 Aug 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay. Good Benefits (although they are getting worse over time). You work with really smart people.

Cons

They just announced 15% work force reduction (layoffs). Politics, Politics, Politics. If you want to get promoted you need to learn to play the political game very early. Culturally the company is stuck in it's old ways. There was always a focus on "out executing the competition." This sounds good on paper but results in a lot of short cuts and TONS of technical debt in both HW and SW. This leads to further band-aids/hacks which just perpetuates the core issues.

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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