Thread regarding Qualcomm Inc. layoffs

@2int,

Please take some much needed urgent professional ethics class. You are the sort of bad apple that company should avoid hiring at all cost, let alone promoting..That too to director level???

Please educate yourself on what the role of a director means, and not go by what it has been meaning so far at Qualcomm. As we all know this role and function of a director is highly inaccurate at Q due to bad apples like yourself.

Your need for being vengeful to other co-workers is disgusting. Rest assured your peers are already aware of this and mostly likely will affect you in future, guaranteed!. What goes around comes around. Please seek help you misguided SOB of a manager.

They went thru the same SOB trainings. What do you expect?

@2int:

" Any employee under me that quits or IOS is a ding on my review.

So of course if you mess with me and my future, I will mess with yours."

First, I don't think anyone is messing with YOUR future per se.

Instead of being such a jerk and dishonorable by penalizing folks for leaving,. I think you should question the "policy" that affects your review.

You should fight the inappropriate and unfair review. A person moving out could be for various reasons. Unless of course, an engineer decides to leave because of your (mis)management. In which case you SHOULD be rightfully dinged. You should learn from the review feedback as to what improvements you can make in your management to help retain people.

But given your statement, you sound like a bad, manager with low ethics and moral. Torturing engineers will not get you any better review and only more dings. Be nice man!

I am Senior Director and the following people left my team due my unwillingness to listen:

• Temp Engineer

• staff engineer

• Temp Technician

• senior staff Manager

• senior staff moved to other group

Do you still thinking I am a good director?

HR is good as they don't care....

I'm a senior staff manager trying to make director before it all gets shipped to India.

Any employee under me that quits or IOS is a ding on my review.

So of course if you mess with me and my future, I will mess with yours.

Fortunately I've managed to weed out the non H1b's to a large extent to prevent defections, but for the few remaining who might think about it, you have been warned.

@1pou

Because a lot of managers at Q are idiots who don't have better things to do. Seriously, if they are busy innovating they wouldn't care to waste energy on such things. Everything you see is a result of imbeciles rising to middle management via favorism showing their insecurities and petty mind.

Why are these Qualcomm managers such SOB and unprofessional.

Really, what can they gain by being such jerks in the last 2 weeks when the person is already leaving. Just f***ing be nice and maintain the good relations.

Really, what do they have to loose by letting the person leave in peace. No frustrated engineer is going to really do any meaningful work in the last two weeks. Let them leave you dumb jerks!

The Courts should closely examine Qualcomm PIP's over the past few years. Many of them are illegal.

HR in bed with managers

Nowadays if the manager is not a SOB, then is not qualified to be a manager in Q

Wondering what can the manager do if the emoyee has given a 2 weeks notice of leaving Q all together (not IOS) and decides to not waste time and work on the crappy mundane tasks assigned to him by the creepy manager?

Why hell can the manager unleash on him when he is sort of turning a def ear to him untill his last day.

I know of a senior director who tried to block a "Temp" employee from going, what a useless mother Fucer!! So stupid to try to stop a temp employee very stupid....

@OP: You should be thankful that he didn't put you on a PIP. I have seen this happening many times before when an employee tried to transfer internally. It will start by lowering your review and then put on a PIP so you are oficially blocked from trasfering.

IMO the right way to deal with an employee who has given a 2 week notice, is for the manager to -.

(1) allow them to wrap up what they are doing,

(2) have him handoff incomplete stuff to his peer,

(3) have him train his replacement or whoever will be inheriting his work.

These are absolutely acceptable expectations of the employee.

If there is more time, the lead/manager could REQUEST him to HELP with some tasks (mundane or otherwise). But really and realistically cannot and should not harass the employee before their leave by constantly taking account of how their time is spent before their last day.

Manager should spend some time setting up a good farewell lunch thanking the employee for the time put in at Qualcomm allowing him to leave with a pleasant experience.

But who am I kidding, right. This is Qualcomm with management filled with ghetto third world mentality... Abuse subordinates and destroy Qualcomm image is what these managers are good for.

Bingo! Dont u know two rules of thumb in Q? Respect to subordinates is the LSB in Q. Licking supervisor is the basic surviving skill in Q.

If I understand correctly, you had two weeks left, and he decided to give you mundane tasks. Without knowing more, I don't think that's unreasonable. You're a lame duck, and it does not make sense to give you something new to work on or continue to work on something when it could be worked on by someone who will stay on the team. The stuff he gave you probably doesn't add much value, but it's there and needs to be done at some point. Give it to an intern or someone who won't be adding any more value.

HR does not count at this company

Moving within the company divisions (or even leaving the company) should not result in mistreating the employee or subjecting them to such disgusting send offs.

Only in Qualcomm I have seen managers and leads being such a$$. They need to get more professional. In most teams the lousy managers don't even arrange a "farewell lunch". How unprofessional and toxic environment. They need to learn to treat employees with some respect when they give the notice of leaving for some other team.

HR Needs to make note to inquire on this in the employees exit interview (during internal IOS move or quitting) to clean up the existing bad management.

Sound like someone at QCT Quality, senior director....