Excellent benefits but poor paymaster - Staff Engineer/Manager Qualcomm Employee Review

4.0
Jun 17, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent benefits and work life balance. Employees are smart and productive mostly. Management is supportive for outside work activities.

Cons

To some extent, QUALCOMM has become like a government office. People who work hard, really work hard but there are slackers who have been here for years and are not fired or laid off. The bonuses and salary is also not great. One problem being in QUALCOMM is that there is no other company in San Diego where you can move and so you have to be satisfied with the salary that QUALCOMM pays you.

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