Thread regarding Qualcomm Inc. layoffs

Is Apple a comparable sweat shop?

It looks like they are in an aggressive hiring expansion, I got a feedback that there is huge redundancy and politics there.

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Post ID: @OP+OwwVrpy

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Post ID: @Jaxl+OwwVrpy

Read.

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Post ID: @ycgu+OwwVrpy

Apple has an elite engineering team. Qualcomm is 90% garbage engineers. Only 10% Qualcomm engineers could even make it past interviews at Apple. If you are a good Qualcomm engineer, your dream is to be accepted into Apple for better work and much better pay. Qualcomm pay sux

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Post ID: @nobd+OwwVrpy

I like open office area. Is fun be as long as people work and no talk of the loudly.

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Post ID: @9hdy+OwwVrpy

"Apple staffers reportedly rebelling against open office plan at new $5 billion HQ"

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/08/08/apple-park-employees-floor-plan-hq-spaceship-aapl.html?ana=yahoo&yptr=yahoo

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Post ID: @9bfz+OwwVrpy

http://roadlesstravelled.me/2015/04/06/why-steve-jobs-motivated-me-to-quit-apple/

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Post ID: @7btr+OwwVrpy

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Apple/40571.htm

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Post ID: @6pes+OwwVrpy

Interview question from Fruit Inc director: "Do you have a greencard?"

I let you guys figure out what the correct answer is ..... btw, I didn't eat the Fritos bag

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Post ID: @3cdb+OwwVrpy

Apple has very low turnover.

Someone is posting fairy tale rumors from click bait websites. The only way to know is to work there. It seems like people who work there don't leave - wonder why?

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Post ID: @3rxh+OwwVrpy

OP here: I got an offer a few years ago and I declined. Glad to be far from Cupertino. Apple reminds me of Nokia's arrogance during Motorola demise. What intrigues me is the extreme secrecy and redundant model, it works while the money is flowing but it can collapse rapidly. I am in the 5G project and not in the riff raff one.

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Post ID: @3ldx+OwwVrpy

I like being busy working on something interesting. A bunch of us here have been without work for almost 2 weeks....what's going on at Qualcomm? Is there no new business?

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Post ID: @3omn+OwwVrpy

https://youtu.be/SBjXUBMkkE8

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Post ID: @3vce+OwwVrpy

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-employees-reveal-15-awful-things-about-working-at-apple-2015-7/#its-easy-to-burn-out-fast-1

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Post ID: @3qvf+OwwVrpy

One anecdote doesn't speak for the thousands of Apple employees that love their company.

Keep thinking that working at Apple s---s. It keeps out the rif-raff like yourself.

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Post ID: @3aym+OwwVrpy

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/apple-employee-ben-farrell-on-why-he-quit-2015-4

"missed one business trip as my wife was pregnant, fell down the stairs and had to be hospitalised - this was listed as a 'performance issue' on my record and brought up during a one on one with management as a major 'miss' on my behalf."

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Post ID: @3hvs+OwwVrpy

If you're passionate about your work and a good engineer then Apple will not be a sweatshop. You'll take pride in your work and enjoy the fruits of your labor.

If you're a Qualcomm engineer that just gets by - you might find it difficult to even pass a phone screen.

It's a good filter. Let people think it's a sweatshop. Apple doesn't want passionless losers that can't cut it in an elite engineering environment.

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Post ID: @3uix+OwwVrpy

Apple will never buy Qualcomm.

They will first destroy the QTL business model and then raid the top 10% of good QCT engineers to build their own modem.

Face it - 90% of Q engineers are garbage compared to the quality at Apple.

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Post ID: @3hbf+OwwVrpy

Sweatshop or not, making money is important. If Q can do that, nobody would be visiting this website in the first place.

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Post ID: @3ace+OwwVrpy

If Apple buys Qualcomm they will layoff 80% including directors and principals of 0 reports and no contribuitions, also Arrogant and Mafia VP's like MR. soup the PTE Godfather

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Post ID: @3uaw+OwwVrpy

Maybe apple will buy Qualcomm and fix all the problems

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Post ID: @2unx+OwwVrpy

Apple stock is way better.

Check the quote.

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Post ID: @2wlb+OwwVrpy

Better to work in tyranny at Apple than to die in infamy at the Q.

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Post ID: @2jhj+OwwVrpy

Pay is good at apple qcom sux.

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Post ID: @2zqr+OwwVrpy

80% of Q engineers are not good enough to work at Apple.

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Post ID: @2nme+OwwVrpy

Apple cafeteria is waaaaay better. Line up early for super fresh sushi

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Post ID: @2rca+OwwVrpy

Better at Apple than Qualcomm ASIC group headed by slave driver KK.

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Post ID: @2ahl+OwwVrpy

Tyranic-like culture.

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Post ID: @1kha+OwwVrpy

Nobody says fruit anymore. The PC term is the gaze....

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Post ID: @1gbx+OwwVrpy

Comparable to McDonalds making slightly different burgers all day long.

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Post ID: @1stc+OwwVrpy

Be nice. They don't say fruit anymore the polite term is the g--s

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Post ID: @1cvx+OwwVrpy

http://fortune.com/best-companies/list/

I can't find the fruit company

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Post ID: @lps+OwwVrpy

"Apple workers blame mental health issues on 'toxic work environment' at tech company"

https://www.google.com/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3801467/amp/Apple-workers-blame-mental-health-issues-hostile-work-environment-tech-company.html

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Post ID: @jmk+OwwVrpy

http://milliondollarshack.com/

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