Let's say that due to the booming tech industry I had a bunch of offers on the table. If the Q isn't giving out promotions any more and the stock is declining, how can it hope to keep me?

Ok. Let's be honest. While we do have internal problems that we need to deal with, the bigger issue is that in general, the semiconductor industry is entering a period of a huge slump. We're not alone. Look at all the earnings that are coming out... — read more 

Make it count! What is it that you really wanted to spend all your time and energy on doing, all the past years anyways? Now is the time to finally get it done. There is a good life out there waiting for you, after Q, no doubt about it.

Guess I wasn't as smart as I thought. Man, that $270,000 profit cost me more than I though. Peace out, Jing

So on my T-Mobile account, one of my old registered phones is so old they are phasing it out. So they are nice enough to send me an alcatel astro phone. Nice made in china cheap phone running Android kitkat. The most interesting part is this will be... — read more 

.... it's not in almost all tier 1 phones....lol...

JJJJJana...Need more juice.....

Does anyone know the sordid details behind the 'retirement' of the APSS head? He came across as a very decent bloke in the work culture seminars that we had. A pity that he left

Who has spent countless hours writing every possible negative comment about the Q and pushing us to leave for "greener pastures" .... GET-THE-F-OUT !!! WE WILL PREVAIL AND OVERCOME THE STORM !!! WE ARE QUALCOMM EMPLOYEES THE FING BEST ENGINEERS!!!... — read more 

To the new VP of marketing...Crapdragon 810 is much more appropriate for describing what the product really is, and sounds infinitely better than WhyWait

Why is everyone complaining? Just get out and find a new job if you don't like it here. I, on the other hand, enjoy it very much here because i have a sr dir title and have gotten a defree in politics at the Q. Politics are what will save your rear... — read more 

Hearing rumors that the Q is going to dump the Crapdragon and focus exclusively on connectivity: modems, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. Because the low end of the market is occupied by MTK and we occupy the high end, but all of the high end customers... — read more 

Nuff said

http://www.econmatters.com/2015/06/how-companies-are-using-pip-to.html

Last interview tip of the day. If you really want the job at a particular company, it's really really important you know where the company is at in the interview cycle for that position. That is, did they just start interviewing for that position or... — read more 

Here's another interview tip. If you're looking for a career change and would really like to work at a company that's notorious for doing those heavily involved technical "solve this problem" phonescreen or onsite interview, learn this very important... — read more 

During the course of my career hunt, there were a lot of good employers that really wanted to hire people with skills they needed, and those were the employers that you really want to spend a lot of time with listening and trying to figure out if it... — read more 

If anyone from IT is reading this board, can you help check how many people are checking this board and for how long per day? It'd be interesting to compute the number of man hours are spent on this board and compare that to the shortfalls shown by... — read more 

Engrish plofessol likely has more RSUs vested than any of you people at the Q who didn't join via an acquisition. This allows him the luxury of doing whatever he wants while on the qualcomm board's time, including teaching english to all the H1B... — read more 

Winner can post and loser has to leave forever!

Im not shore what's market cap ? I thought (# shares) x (price of a share) = market cap. Well, on the market cap for QC, it was 109 billion, then the stock price went down, and the market cap said 107 billion. That makes sense. The price decreased... — read more 

Thanks to the program management office under the direction of S this can be as simple as supporting a particular FEM or some other variation of a board. If you can't fudge numbers that are comprehensible from the comfort of our current position (ie... — read more 

Rest and vest. Ah.....

I have checked couple of other companies profile on this site and I found the post comes every 2/3 months or so. While in Qualcomm profile, jeezaloo... People are just posting any thing other than any layoff activity every 2-3 hours. Good for this... — read more 

M&A will not save QC despite S&M's statements. Intel will dominate in the data center. Competition will crush useless managers at QC. How can QC do well when too many projects keep failing and obsolete managers aren't fired ? B. Failed projects by... — read more 

Except maybe for Jana, Steve, and the Board. What a waste of money. Now borrowed bond money will need to be paid back for shares that are now underwater.

I think for maybe $100, I can find 20 folks from Bangalore that do the actual interview puzzle questions for me during the phone screen. Why should I limit myself to solving these interview questions in O(n^2) worst case just myself, when I can use... — read more 

1) Professional engineers don't need two bosses. This could save significant money by eliminating redundancy. 2) Engineers waste far too much time in meetings. This should be limited to no more than 3 hours per week. If the redundant layer of useless... — read more 

This is evident in the Intel layoff forum posts; they are more mellow and courteous there. The disgusting and demeaning posts on the Q layoff forum just show how screwed up the culture is at the Q, from racists (and the cliques) to those sr dir who... — read more 

Just heard that the Ops review that is scheduled for the beginning of July has been postponed. Am wondering if this is the beginning of the widescale layoffs. The number being thrown around is 3K although with PIPs and elimination of... — read more 

Hint, this f**king idiot likes to do the same irrigating thing over and over again cause he doesnt have any creativity. Find this same trait in your team and Fire his fruit cake a$$. There are plenty of back door POSITIONS that he can take at Black... — read more