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      Qualcomm

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      3.8

      73% would recommend to a friend

      (10,998 total reviews)
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      Cristiano Amon

      69% approve of CEO

      64% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Work/Life balance

      3.2

      Senior management

      Qualcomm has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 10,998 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Qualcomm employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      11K reviews
      2.0
      Mar 1, 2016

      Company losing a lot of talent

      Senior program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Pay and benefits are good. Culture used to be awesome.

      Cons

      So why did I quit? Highly political work environment, no more raises, lack of job stability (management said no layoffs in our small team but one week later, one of our teammates is gone), work/life balance is pretty bad for hardworking, competent workers but great for career inhouse politicians who like to "work from home."

      3.0
      Oct 16, 2015

      Sr Hardware Engineer

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Competitive pay for SD area - Lots of great people - Lots to learn technically and smart people to learn from - Interesting products to work on - Flexible hours - Fitness facilities in almost every building - Great city to live and work in

      Cons

      - Non-optimal management structure (too many cooks in the kitchen) - Going through cost reduction, so lots of penny pinching - Engineering teams being outsourced, or under threat of outsourcing to India - Bell curved performance reviews - Promotion quotas to limit number of promotions per review cycle (in some teams) - Arbitrary "minimum-time-served" promotion prerequisites regardless of whether employees deserve it or not (in some teams) - Executive management taking vast sums of money as bonuses and skimping on bonuses for the little guys - Very large company, so you get buried in corporate culture and bureaucracy at times - Career advancement has a ceiling in a lot of teams due to top heavy nature of this company - Recurring layoff rounds lately

      3.0
      Oct 9, 2015

      Life at Qualcomm

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      High salary, good benefits, RSU's and bonus. Very good work environment with great facilities. Depending on title you will get an office. Cutting edge technology

      Cons

      Very political. Politics is driven by the Indian mafia. Management has been promoted on the basis of race and technical ability alone. Ability to lead and manage people does not come into it. So the company has ended up with a lot of senior geeks and no leaders.

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