Can't land up with any job in SD. Have very limited skill set after 10 more years in Q. Life is so miserable.
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I had a manger who required a feature implemented. The HW lacked support for the feature. So we had implemented a SW workaround for it. Once a next gen HW was released that added the support for the feature, we urged the appropriate folks to kill the SW workaround and implement SW driver to use the hw support.
But my dumb manager/lead, to not disturb the status quo decided to force team(s) to support the lousy SW workaround for the feature on a new hw, even though the hw supported it easily... the lead/manager was too weak to do the right thing and make right calls. And did not want to "stir" the still water.... Lest he should be responsible for "breaking" the build stability, and impact his review/bonus/promotion. What a loser and he got promoted recently to director.
I can't believe, I am still working g for this idiot!
@M1EYjn6-2aen, couldn't have said it better myself. It's amazing how these management practices are so wide spread around the organization. I wouldn't have believed it until I experienced it.
I would add to your assessment that there is also an inferiority complex and a "can't do" culture now. Google and others are worshiped, even Intel can execute on a plan to steal Qualcomm's business, but the Q can only sit there and flip, flop, gyrate, vegetate, talk, but nothing happens at the end of the day. Meanwhile, competitors just roll up their sleeves and get it done. Unless something fits into the old standards/patent/monopoly line of thinking, it won't get done.
I quit 2 months back as well. Sick of the discrimination that my manager keep playing. Publicly, my manager declare that the team belong to his nationality. Yes, a team belong to his nationality! Other don't count.
I just quit Q 2 months ago. Best decision ever. End to working with most abusive managers. Sort of taking my time to learn new things, technologies before charging back. But the relief is awesome.
If you like your work (culture, people, the work in itself), one can work long hours and even possibly weekends without feeling the stress. When culture, people, management s---s, working for even more than 2 hours is quiet stressful.
I was the former before and turned into the latter for almost the last 2 years. Turned into a vegetable after being berated constantly for making my own calls... So stated doing the minimum and what I am told by the ego maniacal managers that consistently push engineers to settle for easy and short term bad decisions, technologically speaking...
Got tired of it all, and quit finally! Feels great.
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” - Jim Rohn
People we spend the most time with, add up to whom we become. QC managers are losers who can't find jobs anywhere. The longer one stays the worse one gets. Get smart, get out of QC. I am glad i did.
That is your fault, Many people at QC are just like you, never care about keep learning but doing one thing for years, go to Walmart...
Fly like an Eagle from N!!!
Ah, yes, they are hiring...cheaper recent grads, that is. It's legalized age discrimination.
Reapply at Qualcomm. They are hiring.
Move back to India? That's where all the jobs are going anyway.
Move to the Bay Area. That is the hip place for engineering jobs.