Qualcomm reviews

1. Always busy, pressure and stress sometimes 2. Expensive life at San Diego 3. Very fast pace environment (almost no time to learn) 4. Layoff, bonus and salary reductions since 2014 5. Dealing with demanding customers 6. Crazy work hours (10am-7pm)

Extremely long working hours especially in the Physical Design group. You can end up working 100 hours week along with full night outs. Even after doing a night out , you might still be bashed by your manager for not doing this and that. Because of the aggressive work schedules , people are expected to be available almost every time, whether its late night or weekend or holidays. Management is treating engineers like slaves. Forget work life balance, this is not the place to be in when you have a family. They do not care whether you are sick , or dying due to a heart attack, they will still call you to check the ETA of your deliverable! Due to big volume of work, quality takes a beating, the emphasis is on 'somehow' completing your work, and the only thing discussed in the meetings is ETA. Everybody is working in a factory mode, slogging round the clock , without any innovative thinking. This place works likes a factory!! Generous RSU's and their vesting period are one big reason why people wont leave Qualcomm even with this bad culture.