Qcom existence in question as royalty business is gone. Management has no option but shrink the company by 50% for survival. Lay offs imminent. Stock to hit 32-35 level.

New employee here. Just wondering Is there any norm? or it really depends on the team culture? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

Let's start with some info about the Managers and leads at W, all are coming from a company which failed due to the type of people they hired, company used to make phones and started with "K". Managers are useless don't add any value and the Zombie... — read more 

What is the justification for bringing over and employing thousands of H1b while so many Americans are out of job?

Nobody feel safe after September.

Exactly right, but hey QC can get a 5 for 1 deal! What a bargain!

Need more insider buying ... lol

HW apps mostly drive team's but don't do anything related to HW, this function should be moved to India.

Please stop the arrogance, discrimination, elitism, and unfair practices. Provide better jobs to the good engineers and layoff the ones who oppressed people first.

A company holds these beliefs as its core values. A company treat its customer such like United Airline treats its passengers. Do you think it will treat its employees fairly?

Jeff Bezos may be a tool, and Amazon scks for lots of reasons, but in the context of Bezos' letter to shareholders, Qualcomm is well into "Day 2". Everyone knows this. Customers know this (Apple called them out on it). Shareholders know this (they've... — read more 

We will talk about this group for a week or so.

QUALCOMM shares are down and Blackberry shares are up as QUALCOMM loses a dispute with Blackberry and must pay them $815,000,000. The decision cannot be appealed.

QUALCOMM MUST PAY BLACKBERRY $815,000,000. The decision cannot be appealed.

Wall Street Analysts Sounded The Alarm on (2) Stocks today- United Airlines and QUALCOMM. They both took a tumble and QUALCOMM is at significant risk embroiled in Lawsuits with Apple - a Key Customer. Not a Pretty Picture!

Starting from top to bottom out of the 60 people only 5-7 know what they are doing all other are just s---ing Milk from QC. This group should not exist as no value is added.

As part of NXP integration, teams have been identified from both sides which will be axed. Overlapping teams will see cuts from QCOM side. Automotive, IOT are some of teams within QCOM Which will face major cut. its easy to remove ppl from QCOM... — read more 

http://www.firstpost.com/world/new-email-id-to-report-h1b-abuse-the-gloves-are-off-3369078.html

He tell us what to do and what to say, no one can say or act without his approval, he is like the big daddy.

USCIS quietly over the weekend released new guidance that computer programmers are no longer presumed to be eligible for H-1B visas.

Look at the postings from engineering team exposing the lies and issues inside QC. These reflect in the performance of the chipsets. Bugs are known and never disclosed to customers, instead QC ship this bad material. Be aware.

My background is from a factory checking the Quality of product like phones, toasters etc. I never ever learn anything during these last 12+ years , my director does not care either, all I do In daily basis is to call quality alerts (which can be... — read more 

Customers started complaining about the poor performance, low quality and reliability of this product, don't understand QC management, will they even get it? Or should all customers go to Intel and Mediatek for them react?

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1331535

Very clear

Of course the no value VP's will continue until they get their package, I know one at R and also a senior director which can even talk to customers and make a PP presentation. Leave while you can and find a better job.

The government has been lying about unemployment since that Sack of shoot Bill Clinton was president in the early 1990's. It was at that time, that the government made up the "discouraged worker" category to miscount the long-term unemployed people... — read more 

I had a friend who worked there until 2006. He changed teams and on the new team, he decided to work his a-- of to "prove" himself. He accomplished all his assignments and even took on extra work that quarter, wow wow! Well, his manager took him into... — read more 

Called employees from multiple departments for almost 3 hours to ask about the abnormalities and misalignment of engineering groups, many people exposed all known issues. I am not sure if HR this time will let go all people who don't contribuite at... — read more 

QC Motto: Dollars before the citizens. Billions in profit isn't enough for our greed machine sell out our countries citizens our employees who made us great (at one point yes QC was great but long gone are those days) if it means an extra buck don't... — read more 

As we are more and our matrix is "working or get fired" please either quit or get ready to be let go with few weeks of the merge. We don't like politics or Bullshxt so get ready for the big change !! We are NXP not QC

There will be layoff in September. anybody can predict while working in Qualcomm in current situation. there are lot's of back doors meetings at senior level. If there is no layoff then management has to announce it. otherwise Qualcomm will be... — read more