I try to be promoted in vain. Could someone please reveal to me the secret of how to get a promotion at QCOM, what are the criteria?
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It would help if you were female. Given the lawsuit the company lost on how women in the company were under titled and under paid an effort has been made to promote women. There are definitely better places to work, if unhappy, move on.
Just look at the engineering guidelines and convince yourself, your manager and the other managers that you are operating at the next level.
Beyond senior staff who knows...that is why senior staffs are leaving
You would save yourself a lot of grief if you don't even THINK about promotion. Don't set that as a goal for yourself, because you have no control over it. AT ALL.
Promotions have NOTHING to do with your accomplishments, work ethic, results, number of patents you file, how well you code, multi-task, intelligence, hard skills, soft skills, how well you network, reputation, etc. The numbered ratings system during performance reviews is just a smokescreen and means NOTHING. Seriously. Promotions are done based on backroom deals between cowardly managers with biases that just use engineers as trading cards. "You give me one, I'll give you one. You back me on this, I'll back you on that." NOTHING to do with you. The managers COMPLETELY FAIL at honestly and fairly executing this part of their jobs, and because it's not illegal and there are no lawsuits involved, HR doesn't get involved.
Ultimately, I imagine your goal is to be happy. Don't tie that to a job title no one sees or cares about and a few extra bucks. If you want that, just change jobs every few years, you'll likely get a bump every time. Otherwise, enjoy your work, learn new skills, grow personally, do what makes you happy.
Hope that you sucked off the right people.
you need to have good connections in the chain
You need to buy knee pads and get to work!