Qualcomm reviews

People are liked by bosses based on where they are from in India, their caste, their creed etc. Worked in a team that gradually grew but grew too fast in office politics. Managers will love employees who will wash their feet, do their work and also praise and butter them. Double faced employees often seen in office corridors to sneak up on what others are doing rather than their own job and reporting about them to their managers. Thus getting their promotions. Some of the managers hire their relatives and friends and openly admit that they are better than those hired by straight channels. Even after getting some top tier projects managers will make their employees take a back seat and make them hop from project to project just because one complained about their favorite employee's behavior and abuse. No constructive feedback just abuse from managers and toxic comparisons with some of their relatives and friends at work.

Regular late night and early morning calls with India. Work life balance is poor. Targeted layoffs for employees over age 50. They claim they don't discriminate based on age, but if you look around at who gets laid off every cycle.... Promotion track is extremely political. The promotion from entry-level to journeyman to mid-level is just based on time in seat, but after 10 years exp, you need to be the right guy's friend to advance. Management is promoted internally, which means that nearly every manager and director is either a member of the pre-2010 old boys club or the winner of the latest departmental cage fight. Incredible amounts of infighting at the director level. Work teams are sabotaged or outright destroyed by Game of Thrones style politics a level above them. No training path for juniors. They are just expected to figure things out themselves. Morale is in the toilet. WLB and consistent layoffs have the office feeling like a funeral parlor. Offshore teams in India are coming for the San Diego workers' jobs, and the SD employees all know it. Zero innovation. The same products just get recycled over and over again. QCOM is stagnant technologically. Repetitive work. No real career growth. After staff level, you pretty much either just rest and vest, or start playing politics to get on the promotion track. If you join Qualcomm in San Diego, simply plan on being laid off in 3 to 5 years. Either you will tick the wrong guy off, your director will tick the wrong guy off, you will age into the danger zone, or an economic downturn will have the C-Suite offshoring your job to Bangalore.