Just trying to help some of you guys out... I was contacted by Fitbit for a job opportunity here in San Diego. Unfortunately, I've already accepted an offer elsewhere, so I had to decline moving forward with them. (I'm not an embedded software person... — read more 

Expect another round of huge lay-off in few months. I heard this morning when I spoke to executive

In part due to a death in the family and a mother with Alzheimer's symptoms (requiring a lot of help from me on a daily basis) I've taken the last three weeks off. Before the layoffs and before the death in the family we were in the process of... — read more 

I mean, what mortgage payments? I don't know too many old timers that's been resting and vesting for the past decade or so that have an outstanding mortgage, or one that is more than an their existing vested NQ option grants, even after capital gains... — read more 

Hopefully, you were smart with it, and didn't blow it away on useless crap.... But if you were reasonable with managing it, as a astute competent nerd/geek should have been, enjoy the financial security...Just imagine getting laid off if you didn't... — read more 

To the potential employers or whoever comes across resumes from QCOM engineers applying to positions with your companies, please do not hire these guys or find reasons to disqualify them during the interviewing process. All of them have enough "f*ck... — read more 

So sources are saying it's possible that after the Avago merger, it is possible that the SD site will be shutdown with workers asked to commute/relocate to the new Irvine campus they are building in FivePoint Communities’ Great Park. Unconfirmed... — read more 

...to buy during that time. He/she would have made a killing. But yet he/she still rents... HAHAHAHAHAHA..

10-20% dip expected

You folks don't understand why this layoff is going to hit more junior/inexperienced/less tenure people....Less liability. You see, if you have an employee that's only 3-4 years or less out of school, they are relatively young/inexperienced, and when... — read more 

Huge dip possible.

Worked in QCT from 2004 to 2012 - moved to Microsoft in Redmond, WA after that. I am not saying that life is perfect over here, yet much happier than I was the last 2 years I was at QCT. Actually pretty impressed in the decisive way Microsoft did... — read more 

There is a good chance SD housing market will dip 10-20% in three months evev FED don't raise the interest rate

Staff, Sr. Staff and Directors are going to get hit the hardest (as a percentage), Engineers and Senior Engineers with less than 2 years with Qualcomm are also getting hit pretty hard. Notices will be spread out for 3 layoff dates: November, Jan and... — read more 

With the exception of personality conflicts and poor results on reviews, most of the hit will end up coming from the more inexperienced engineers, those at the senior engineer title and lower with relatively low number of years at the company... — read more 

U.S. Should train highschool dropoots for your position.

Good luck to everyone this week. To all those who get a GTFO package, you will find another gig and will likely decide that this turned out to be a good thing. For those that don't, good luck, but you might wind up wishing you had gotten a package... — read more 

Forget drones! In an effort to prove he is still relevant to Qualcomm's relentless pursuit of the Internet of Things, Murthy stands poised to announce this week that the 810 chip will be featured in a new line of water-saving flush toilets... — read more 

Yes it's rreally.is true... I make a gazillion bucks with my MD from university of phoenix. I tried to be an engineer but devry was too damn hard. I couldn't get the difference between current and voltage.

BTW, I am not the same poster as SI boards. But my colleague directly reported to SteveMo in Globalstar and later in RF systems from 1996- 2001. He clearly said that Steve used to be a genuinely good caring and approachable man back then, not at all... — read more 

It's just a sweatshop for heads...add sewing machines to the lab benches and it would be complete. And I think that attempting to lay off employees involved in union organizing is a nice lawsuit. Just sayin..

Engineers are too much morons . Management knows that you enjoy being screwed! Lol

His answer was "I hope Chargers will do well". Bravo Q on a well thought world class marketing campaign. What about the idiot brought from Intel inside? Is he still getting 500k plus / yr for doing nothing?

Just to make things worse for the employees affected, jobs are showing up on Monster, Indeed, etc. Execs are laughing all the to the bank.

real estate experts in thinking housing will crash 50%, that are trolling the Q sections here? Is it that they are so miserable be a minimum wage worker and struggle financially so bad, that they so desperately are hoping others will be brought down... — read more 

hahaha. Seeing all the depressed posts and comments from you pathetic engineers makes me happy. My primary-care practice grossed in almost $2 million last year. It'll probably be the same this year. I replace two doctors who worked for me with two... — read more 

God Bless America

When carriers start offering $400 rebates to trade in an old iPhone for a new 6s, people are going to upgrade, no doubt. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/verizon-planning-generous-trade-in-offer-for-old-iphones-173115526.html That's bad news for Android... — read more 

I am really depressed. can't sleep. Not sure if I will have a job next week. Don't have any energy left for job hunting thanks to 40+ years of life. Can't see well thanks to long hours. Family don't like me because I keep pushing them to excel in... — read more 

http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/qanda_severance-agreements.html

the Galaxy S7 will supposedly be available in two configurations when it comes to processing power, one based on the Snapdragon 820 processor and one sporting an Exynos M1 system-on-chip, with the latter expected to be found in most Galaxy S7... — read more 

It is illegal if we overstayed, h1b will not be transferred and it get cancelled. Just confirmed with my lawyer.

http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARNReportfor7-1-2015to09-10-2015.pdf