Big company with limited career opportunities unless you work a lot of overtime - Senior Staff Engineer/Manager Qualcomm Employee Review

2.0
Oct 30, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- successful company with good financial status - pockets of good people and good teams - small areas with challenging design work - flexible in work hours and schedule

Cons

- a fair number of engineers have limited social and teamwork skills (to be expected based on the interview process) - work is not very challenging, mostly mindless bug fixes and porting - has fully transitioned to a big company that rewards heavy overtime but not anything else (wasn't this way originally) - promotes weak leaders who attempt to use fear (shouting, etc.) to motivate - highly directed work, low creativity, very strict adherence to processes (many of them weak or even detrimental to the business) - feedback for improvement no longer considered by upper management

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

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