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This is how they do it silently when they don't find any other excuses. Sometimes, a re-org to change your manager prior to the goal-changes occurs as well so the new (excited) manager does the trick and the former one doesn't get his hands dirty.

Q is 30+ years old. Last year, people in the executive suite started to retire. This year it's SVP and VP retirement time. The urge to retire will move into lower ranks as time goes by. Within the next 6 months, expect a lot of people announcing... — read more 

Yher you go... Apple (AAPL) to Design TDDI Chips In-House June 22, 2015 8:50 AM Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is said to be developing touch and display driver integration (TDDI) chips in-house, according to Digitimes. The report noted that the TDDI solutions... — read more 

Folks, Will get straight to the point. I am 42, have been working for QC for 16 years now and have been stuck at Senior Staff for the last 7 years now. My manager is 5 to 6 years younger than me - group of 9 people, every single other person is in... — read more 

While our big U.S. technology companies are more interested in returning shareholder value via financial engineering, technology companies abroad are investing for the long term into R&D and patents....If this trend keeps up, U.S. companies are in... — read more 

Male Communications Engineer Jewish, just like most of executive management Ability to add numbers and make a budget In some cases, these are virtually the ONLY skills that were required in order to earn the rank of VP at Qualcomm by age 35. — read more 

What are MRend and CAmon working on? How much QCT management laid off so far?

Better world out there Fact: Company has bought back billions of stock, but share count has even gone UP. Wealth transferrr to managers execs who don't work at all, spend time in pompouss meetings, saying their engineers will work weekends to get... — read more 

Well, I just completed my job search and I'll be starting a new job in a much better environment soon. I thought I'd share what I think the current job market in SD looks like. I don't need to talk about the Bay Area market, because from what I can... — read more 

...before a major thunderstorm.....I heard the ax will swing in July....

The rushed (sorry "accelerometered") stock buybacks are propping up the price. Looketh at the pattern of the stock price falling vs. rising.... Recent New York times article with Real Numeros: Search for: stock-buybacks-that-hurt-shareholders -... — read more 

Stories like this should never happen. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-dealt-a-blow--disney-s-outsourcing-about-face-and-netflix-vs--hulu-145952456.html Read paragraph about Disney. If you are told to train foreign workers on something, give the... — read more 

How can you engineer or PM if you can't even comprehend traffic interleaving?

we are still the best in the planet

Do they have pow wows?

And here's to you, Mr. Rosenstein, JANA's loved more than you will know. Boardroom bless you, please Mr. Rosenstein. Seats are held for those who reign in executive pay, Hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey.... Where have you gone, Irwin and Viterbi-Oh, Our... — read more 

Check out their linkedin profile. They looking for modem engineers.... Better get plan B lined up in case plan A falls apart.

...Then you don't need to deal with pink slips and WARN act....People in hot job markets like Bay Area will just quit. (People in san diego will be pissed, but most of them will have to put up with it, since they won't find anything else)....You... — read more 

JA.JA.JA.JANA... Mo...Mo...Mo... Buybacks!

One Sr. Dir at work is notorious for being a nasty little bully. He regularly takes people into one-on-ones where he yells at them and generally berates them. Of course he never does this in front of anyone senior, and always picks on people at a... — read more 

http://www.zdnet.com/article/overheating-concerns-continue-to-plague-snapdragon-810-powered-devices/

Do we need two people to lead QCT? What is so special about QCT that you need 2 people to lead the division? Can we not get rid of one of them? I vote for Fat*ss in this case. We could save the jobs of 20 low level engineers solely on his medical... — read more 

http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/officerProfile?symbol=QCOM.O&officerId=1190122

Today this illustrious board reached it lowest point EVER. I can no longer stand reading this GARBAGE. It is with mixed feelings I decided to join glassdoor.com which has a much cleaner environment. I have to admit I'll miss the anonymous freedom of... — read more 

As I walk over to my car to head out for lunch, I see a 1/16" wide scratch going from the front driver side headlight all the way to the rear taillight....it went down to the bare metal. I am fking pied right now. Once the Q security team finds out... — read more 

It worked for apple and the iPhone. I'll take my 820 processor in pink please.

"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy." —J. Paul Getty

J.J.J.JANA!