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@FUCBQxQ-wsf For a tech company, it's not a question of if there's going to be a layoff, it's simply a question of when. There was a time in Qualcomm's history in which people would kill to get into that company. And the interviews and entry to get in was just as tough as it is right now to get into companies like Google. And there was a time in Qualcomm's history in which you were ridiculously compensated too. Unfortunately, every tech company gets stale, and every tech company once they gets big and fat, lose much of their attractiveness, just like in real life.
When a successful tech company first starts out, the company is filled with A+ players....Then, as the company gets bigger and bigger, A+ players start to hire A- players, which in turn start to hire B+players...And as the company continues to grow, B+ players then hire C+ players, and finally when there's many C+players, they end up starting to hire a lot of D- and F players...And then when there's a lot of C-F players in the company, the end up fvcking up the company because they realize they won't ever be good as the A-B+ players, so the end up playing other games that bullshit politics and end up in bullshit positions collecting status and pretending to be useful...Eventually there are so many C-F players, that the A players end up leaving, and what remains are C-F+..And since they can't do any of the the real creative work, the company eventually collapses on its own weight.
Kinda of like what happened over at Motorola, Lucent, NorTel, Alcatel, and insert your other favorite western telco company that no longer exists.
It's kinda like what's going on with Apple right now. All the A+ players are being swamped by C-F players now that are relocating. That apple magic is slowly being chipped away by all the C-F players. You know the tech company is screwed when marketing has taken over and starts to suggest the best way to sell more phones is by adding more colored versions of it. Or you know you're screwed if the HR department is screwed when they start getting louder and louder about how they are going to hire more people based on diversity instead of technical ability. As an engineer, that's your queue to GTFO and find another employer that doesn't have so many bullshit people making bullshit decisions. You won't win as a techie.