To let go in the event of any new layoff. He promised a lot in last 4 years and has not delivered. Same stock price, same uncertainty, same Apple issue. No one is buying what he is selling, whether investors or employees.

If so, how do you manage situations where you're told to rate someone lower than they deserve? I personally can't imagine doing that. Does it ever feel wrong to you, or is it just part of the job? I'm curious if you find it hard to make that call or... — read more 

Prepare for more layoffs folks. Stock is already down on this news.

Has anyone got the non compliance notice yet?

What all does DVC do anyway? IMO they’re the biggest waste of company resources. Leadership should be looking there to reduce headcount before other areas. Tell me I’m wrong…

QC India should consider laying off Directors, Senior Directors, and Principals to enhance organizational profitability. Currently, they have become a burden. Within the Modem team, there is ongoing rivalry between the upper and lower layers, with... — read more 

As an ex employee, I was curious to hear about changes to MST. Although I am happy and content in my new role, I come across a lot of my ex colleagues looking out for roles and stuck with the same useless skills/resume when marketing themselves..this... — read more 

Is attendance checked quarterly or monthly. What are repercussion . How many notices??

RTO is used primarily as the attrition tactics. If rumors are true, RTO people will also be heavily impacted by layoffs under all kinds of excuses. Who is the first to go when work conditions are designed to be bad? Those who can easily find... — read more 

Non compliance == ByeBye. Freudian slip confirms existence of a January list. GL everyone

I want to wish everyone a joyous Holiday season. Spend time with your family, rest and recharge. My gift to you all is no layoffs until next year. Merry Christmas, CA

Offering full remote positions and changing the policy to return to the office is unethical, and does not respect all the employees who really are working hard to make this company what it is now. I don’t want to work anymore for such a company. CA... — read more 

Can anyone confirm? People claim 10% headcount reduction and offshoring.

The VP of RD was reported by his subordinates for taking kickbacks from suppliers and left. The vice president of sales was reported by colleagues for colluding with customers to take kickbacks and was investigated. Is this a rat's nest?

Got 50k+ bonus.. 100k in stocks.. 7% hike for rating of 4. Finally good days for qc. Any more happy souls

AMD, Broadcom, NVDA, Marvell all had 3-4x gains in last 4 years while Qualcomm hasn’t even able to beat S&P500. So much AI hype, not a single customer using their AI Inference AI100 chip. Only good product launch the x elite has brought Qualcomm to a... — read more 

OOF! purposefully yammering on about nothing so he doesn't have to face the music on the questions.

I guess NYC boondoggle was not effective for the execs

Qs performance review is a joke. Layoff should focus on so-called high performance ones. Those ones are nothing but more binded than low score guys. Let go those high ones like lots of principal engineers, directors and senior directors, vps are... — read more 

That’s the Qualcomm way! Some jobs outsourcing to India.

Our CFO is not great cause our CTO and CEO are allowing it. Our CTO has been there for so long, and company stops innovating. CEO has no vision, and he is telling what lower people are telling him. We need a vision -- proof is that our AI is... — read more 

Share your stories

https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/why-qualcomms-latest-diversification-plans-arent-enough-to-help-its-stock-dfb49ff7

Will have to sell new snake oil

Buffoons!

This might be my breaking point. I’ve endured everything Qualcomm has thrown at me over the last eight years, from loss of benefits to constant layoffs, but this guy is going to be the one who pushes me to quit. He has no idea what he’s doing, yet he... — read more 

look at the housing price in San Diego. It has as high living cost as Bay Area. But consumer electronics have low margin. The only way Qualcomm can survive is to taper down SD engineering team and move more R&D to India low cost area. CA can’t do it... — read more 

Why?

Here are the details: Notifications in January 10% overall target in NA NA employees recently classified as "offsite" in PH being reviewed and scrutinized individually, target is 50% of those Senior engineering leadership discussed too many... — read more 

Basically unless you got promoted, you’re fair game as far as RIFs. I got a 3 meh…. Good luck everyone 🍀

Where is our CIO? Sum finance man is doing it not good for technology

Joined in