Qualcomm reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(11,007 total reviews)
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Cristiano Amon

69% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Qualcomm has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 11,007 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Qualcomm employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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11K reviews
2.0
Jan 21, 2022

Lots of boomers who won’t retire

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Less stressful than other tech companies to work at -People are usually pretty nice and have been with the company for a long time -Pay is competitive if you negotiate during hiring

Cons

Working at Qualcomm is like working for a dinosaur. It’s an older tech company, with the talent to match. It’s very different from any other tech company in that it moves like a dinosaur. Unqualified and ineffective leadership cling to their roles and enforce unnecessary approval hierarchies because it’s clear they wouldn’t be able to get a job anywhere else at this point in their careers. Think boomers who can’t rotate a PDF, yet keep 10 people in a meeting so someone can demonstrate for them how to do it. Managers aren’t given any training, and employees are told career development is their responsibility. If you just want a job you don’t need to care about, this is probably fine for you. But Qualcomm is where people’s dreams of career advancement and development go to die.

4.0
Dec 1, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

1. You get to work with some of the smartest people in the industry and on the cutting edge of technologies 2. Great benefits

Cons

1. Practically no work / life balance due to teams spread across the globe 2. Work culture is unprofessional and abusive

3.0
Oct 16, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Stock benefits are good, but it vests over 3 years, so keep that in mind. Qualcomm as a brand is big on your resume.

Cons

The local management is excellent at trying to trick employees into thinking they are compensated well and learning a lot. Also they are not transparent. No learning. Almost everything you do in Qualcomm Singapore is re-use from Qualcomm US. As such, there is no skill you are picking up. You will be in difficult situation with a lack of skills to move around, and suddenly in a position where there is too much to learn in too little time. There is too much work, and the compensation is does not match that. Also, doing so much work, you will never have personal time to develop skills. And you are not going to develop any skills at work either. There are tools that are used (not developed by you), tests that are run (not developed by you), and data that is collected and shared to other teams (not analyzed by you). Overall, if you are looking to learn, this is NOT the place to be. Skills are very important, so dont expect to pick any here. Last but not least, people tend not to share things with you, and that hinders progress. Not a collaborative environment, within teams. Across teams, it is collaborative, because the company cannot function otherwise.

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