Great company but not to work at - Software Engineer Qualcomm Employee Review

3.0
Apr 26, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

It’s a great hardware company, there truly is quality with the modem. Location in San Diego is unbeatable You can stay here forever The espp plan is amazing!

Cons

There is lacking in diversity, majority of engineering employee are Indian or Chinese. This is causing the Qualcomm culture to be similar to the Asian culture of over working. I saw many coworkers working until midnight or even the weekends. We don’t have on-call, but honestly being on call might be better. Moving up takes forever, you’ll be stuck in a role for five plus years

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5.0
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Pros

Competitive Pay and good team

Cons

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4.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

Great design team. Learn a lot in the project. Great resources for self motivated technical improvement.

Cons

Big wave of talented engineers leaving in some critical departments. CEO lacks responsibility on the company development. CEO and CFO have been selling their stocks a lot every year.

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