I got an email regarding the climate review.. Are these reviews really confidential or they are used to identify the employees and short list them for the next round of layoffs.. Folks giving negative comments make to the top of the list for next... — read more 

Additional Layoffs and Cuts to be announced at of this year. If you are working on a project that's not going any where, don't be surprised if you get booted with that project, no matter how well you have been doing in the past.

The GOP supports an anything-goes #h1b free for all as much as the DNC, even more so. It's all one group of millionaires taking good care of the billionaires who keep them in office. The only difference between the parties is that the GOP wears the... — read more 

Sr Dir helps his friend to get in as SVP. SVP promotes Sr Dir friend to VP. VP gets his sister with no background in PdM hired as a product manager.

I just wanted to reflect on how awesome our lives are at QCOM. For simple reasons: 1) The best company to work for in the universe PERIOD 2) Career development opportunities are far more superior to bloated sweatshops like Facebook, Amazon, etc 3)... — read more 

Thinking about post retirement jobs. Walmart greeter jobs are at full capacity. Felt a little guilty for suggesting a former employee to go back to school. I went to school in which company paid for 100%. I hardly picked up 5%. Thinking about... — read more 

Lots if dir promo in PM team,what do these guys do? I see some old timers got promo to dir level

We were only f---ing joking with Apple. We didn't really want to deliver as we've f---ed everything else up. Can you send some guys over who know something about modems since Apple are actually taking us seriously.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3978721-qualcomm-hold-best

Log guys with out-of-date tech skills. More like auto-reply machine.

Let's see why algorithm development at Q is a complete joke: 1) Nobody f---ing cares about a general purpose solution to problems. Everything is based off of hacks and if else statements that deal with special cases. LET'S ILLUSTRATE THIS WITH AN... — read more 

Murthy promoted a lot of mini-murthy (all Indians of course) while he was at Q. So even though he has moved on, his style of pompous yet incompetence lives on.God bless

No matter how hard you worked, don't dream of getting one if you are not one of their favorite pet.

America’s immigration mess is entirely self-inflicted. In 1965 the United States changed its laws to encourage immigration. Mexico didn’t change America’s laws. Ever since, American businessmen have knowingly, eagerly hired illegal immigrants in... — read more 

Did they work at the same time in Qualcomm?

Guys you suck. All of you. You are people who end up in Qualcomm because you guys are worst in the industry .. Qualcomm will go down with Arm, Google, , Apple, Samsung and Intel rip you guys apart. People will be laid off soon. At Qualcomm.

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So much for Cristiano's "we're back" lol Tons of work on the horizon with same or lower pay.

It's no longer a "conspiracy theory" ... now a massive, multi-year government study has conclusively proven that cell phone radiation causes brain tumors. It also causes heart tumors, by the way, and now the entire cell phone industry is freaking out... — read more 

Anyone got same?

Can someone give me a break down how focal is done at Qcom? It looks like Intel is adopting there process. There are rumors of having a focal review every quarter where people dont perform, thery are out.

What was life at Qcom like with Murthy and has it improved after he left. What was the view of him. Intel hates him. Actually there are many high level execs that came to intel and they are all the same. I could only imagine what Qcom was like with... — read more 

If we drop out of Apple deal will you take Murthy back?

Got an offer recently. Just curious what is the daily life of customer engineer?

Please can you tell us what we are in for. Any anecdotes of typical Murthy are more than welcome

A credible rumor says that avgo didn't win the NFC deal with a certain fruit company. That group is most likely going to get Hock-t-sized by it's ruthless CEO. https://www.thelayoff.com/t/Hy3YbwH All is not well in the chip industry...Unless you're... — read more 

We drop the calls you dropped the ball

Everyone gets promoted - at least 25 pages of names and titles. No bonus/salary increase/RSUs though.

What is the amount of the retention bonus people got?

I've left Q a while back now and have been working at one of the silicon valley superstars for a while now. In Q I was a software engineer doing mobile firmware in the superstar company I do software engineering in the backend and I'm on the younger... — read more 

Everytime during the all hands meeting, SM will say attrition is high, and HR is sending out this survey to selected folks to findout why. Has anyone ever got this survey? And why the hell do they need to conduct this survey when the answer is... — read more 

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13571602/1/qualcomm-ceo-you-either-win-technology-transitions-or-you-don-t-live-to-tell-the-day.html "But I wasn't one of those kids that took apart radios and put them back together. I did take things apart, but it... — read more