Thread regarding Qualcomm Inc. layoffs

A woman manager made it clear to me that it was a very good time to be a woman at QCOM right now to explain all the promos, high visibility assignments and business travel intentionally created or carved out for woman recently. Sounds like woman will be just fine as QC atones for the lawsuit. And if you are a man, s---s to be you.

@4gnz. First off it is not a competition based on gender as to who is producing more. From management perspective, of course the one who is contributing more will/should be moving up further regardless of gender.

The point being raised here is a situation where ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL, when two employees, one man and another woman, are performing equally good. In this case when the same woman informs about a leave of absence, assumptions are made of her FUTURE performance after returning back. Even worse, actions are taken by the management based on the assumptions of expected lower dedication and performance from her. This despite of her stating and demonstrating explicitly of her desire to resume with same dedication. These actions effects her career growth. This is NOT how a male employee is treated when he gives a notice of leave of absence.

The point you generalize about women is sort of s-xist (regardless of your observation being accurate or otherwise), but a different topic than what is brought up here.

I think Qcom should be commended for treating everybody unethically and unfairly in an equal manner. If you were to press, I would guess that for every 1 man treated unfairly, 0.9 women are treated unfairly.

Career growth should be directly proportional to the value the person adds to the company. It is not the men in the company but the management that is to be blamed. All this discussion is saying is women at Qcom in general is not contributing as much as men and it is a general observation across the board and not just one team.

People here passing comments on how women abuse the system or get away with lame work, please think twice before voicing your useless co.ments.

The issue raised is about how two equally dedicated ethical employee(one man and another women) have their careers affected and treated differently by stupid biased prejudicial managers at QCOM.

If you see"woman". (or a man). getting away with minimal work and still getting g paid well and unfairly, blame it on the lousy management.

" Being a woman (or any minority) is an advantage at most tech companies, Q included "

Really?? It's an advantage?? What a load of crap. Please elaborate how is it an advantage?

The initial comment was for folks (women) who work hard and are caste aside by peers and managers that are usually men. Not women (or for that matter a lot of men as well), who abuse the system and are slackers, whiners complainers... Believe it or not there is a lot and lot of prejudice about women's work dedication and performance once she has announced if her maternity leave. This is never the case for men who have also announced their up coming paternity leave.

Specially in a work place that is heavily populated by men of old culture and mentality from developing countries which is the case in Qualcomm. Assumptions are made and actions are taken based on the assumptions that stunts a women's career growth. Too many of this instances at QCOM.

Agree with previous comment, QC's lack of competitive edge has to be blamed to this issue to some degree.

These days it's the other way. Male candidates are the ones who suffer. Females in our team do nothing but get promoted in 2 years. There will be another lawsuit but my men who suffer.

Being a woman (or any minority) is an advantage at most tech companies, Q included.

I've seen the exact opposite. This lady in our group works on config files and does almost no core sw development. She talks a lot about how long this build is taking in her group meetings. She is obsessed with processes and documentation. Leaves behind nonsensical code review comments. She promotes herself very well in group meetings, but, again, nothing about real development. Does not seem flexible at all getting out of her comfort zone. She manages to send the right emails out so is very visible. She has a doctor appointment once week, and is guaranteed to wfh twice a week. She was promoted to senior staff last year. She's also pretty young. Whereas gray haired guys on our team are still at a lower level.

So, no, Qcom is safe regarding their treatment of women, as they are given preferential treatment. Who knows what exactly went on Uber. Everybody was probably harassed there. Most treated it as business and and focused on creating the coolest tech in world, but some decided to complain, (maybe) mostly women, just to have more visibility

The HR ladies are equally corrupt as the dudes

Seen it both ways. Female employees who screw qcom by doing unproductive manual work like cherry pick, wait for build to complete, get coffee, talk n run tests written by somebody else. Then talk in the meetings and in one on one with the manager that they have so much work. No offence but in the reviews if somebody says they cherry picked and ran tests, then that person should automatically get a bad score. These are the employees will send out OoO and LET emails regularly. On the other hand, their are brilliant hard working female employees not getting promoted just because they went on a maternity leave at the wrong time.

QC allows s-xist/toxic environments to exist throughout the company and it cuts both ways (look at being a male in QSR group). This will drive good employees away.