I don't recall seeing Apple executives wearing a suit. Are designer's jeans, black t-shirt (WhyWait logo) and a jacket ok? ...

Americans now have to compete with them to get few jobs left; in the mean time Q is asking for more H-1b

While I have to concur with you that troubles at QCOM will have negative effects in the county and job markets, there can be some benefits. First, it should take down ol' Irwin and his sons a few notches. They have become mighty arrogant and have... — read more 

I am thankful for my new job and the opportunity to work on challenging projects again. I am thankful I have a boss who actually is trained in what I do and can offer input into what I do. I am thankful for an #H1B free environment. I am thankful for... — read more 

I believe Qualcomm needs to hire more outsiders from top-to-bottom in order to increase our chances of turning things around. This needs to happen very quickly, it should be like a blitzkrieg in the ivory tower - sack the executive line-up, start... — read more 

thelayoff sucks without it!

Feeling great. After Thanksgiving dinner with family and loved ones, I will still have a job to come to next Monday. The suckers that were let go must have felt miserably. It sucks to be you! It feels great to be employed.

Yes

I had a really tough time finding a job. I graduated summa cum laude from a top 10 university and worked at Qualcomm for 5.5 years straight out of school. I wasn't too worried about the RIF because I thought I can easily make it through top companies... — read more 

And that includes you @bitter-landlord

Because it's a threat to Freedom

How many you got?

Case in point: Ryan Haveson and his minions.

Hmmmm....why promotions when they're trying to cut costs???? Should have delayed!

24 Disney IT workers about to sue over foreign replacements. --- #h1b --- http://www.computerworld.com/article/3007933/it-careers/two-dozen-disney-it-workers-prepare-to-sue-over-foreign-replacements.html

How can you have a review with no self input or 3rd party input?

it appears like it just reinforced the hyper politically charged environment Qualcomm has been suffering with for the last 20 years. The same village Indians remained. The people who were vocal about the problems and didn't play the games had were... — read more 

Culture totally changed... brilliant engineers have no place now. The rising stars are those who can drive their teams to deliver fast regardless of the qualify and regardless of the morale of the the team. QC is now loaded with mangers and leads who... — read more 

Not all of us that were laid off are rich. I certainly am not and I wasn't lazy. My organization was absorbed into another organization. Naturally that organization would eliminate the new people whether or not fair.

Things are falling apart here - A thread discussing this @ECNGKFG

What's the use of them anyways?

Referring to the meeting invite recently received to all QCT employees.

Even if it is open, rumor is there's gong to be more maintenance required soon.

I heard someone got contacted by the FBI after insulting the CEO Beware what you say.

Go T R U M P

Steve had to do a gravity assist maneuver using Oprah to bring Christiano out of Murthy's orbit.

is it just me or is there less gravitational pull since MR left?

Sure to have another recession like the Bush recession. Republicans 2 recessions during GW bush, 1 during Older Bush. Booming economy during CLinton. Recovery from recession during Obama.

Kind of sums up things that are going on here, in QC, in SD County and the nation...