Qualcomm reviews

Long working hours, weekends and public holidays are non-existent, sleep deprivation hence many people fall sick (it is very usual and normal here), no time for own hobbies or interests, no time for family bonding, unreasonable expectation by management, project timeline getting shorter every year, leads telling you not to sleep, lack of appreciation for hardwork (in fact appreciation tool and platforms have become better but the amount of appreciation has become significantly less or redundant), no break between projects, no replacement or compensation for overtime works, people expect you to work EVEN ON YOUR MOST IMPORTANT DAY like wedding day, family celebration, family tradition, etc. Basically, expect to sacrifice everything for Qualcomm.

Hyderabad has mostly grunt mindless work. Makes company look like a glorified services company. Very few teams have work which is good for your career enhancement and being put in that team depends mostly on luck. Freshers from the best Indian colleges are put in random projects. Ppl who were good at programming in college are put in teams where minimal technical challenges are there. Team specific training is almost non-existent. Lack of proper documentation about processes. Seniors are happy to just complete their work and don't care about freshers. Either you will be given ridiculous amount of work with no training, or you will be given no work at all many days as seniors are busy in just handling all themselves and don't care about freshers gardual learning growth. Most freshers stay only for 1-2 years because of this messed up work culture. If you are talented and hungry for challenging problems(regardless of hw/sw domain) this is not the place for you. You can search on linkedin how long freshers stay here. Middle managers are mostly incompetent. Zero feedback mechanism from freshers. Any feedback given is just thrown away and not acted upon. You should be very lucky to have a good team/good mentors here.