Qualcomm reviews

I worked in Qualcomm for the past 1.7 years and in that period I witnessed layoffs 3 times unfortunately in the third round I got laid off and I also heard that there will be more rounds of layoffs in upcoming years. So, this causes an unstable working environment where you are always stressing about layoff news. Through, every company, we can see layoffs but what disappointed me here is, that they are also hiring at the same time. A new employee is joining my team. So I asked my director and senior director about this and why is like that the same team is hiring and removing, honestly not spice up anything, and I did not receive any satisfaction. They all are talking in circles blaming higher authorities. Nobody got a hike in the company in 2023, and they are not planning to recompose last year and give a higher hike this year. Also, I did not feel that the quality of work at Qualcomm was good. When I compare my other friends working in other big MNCs, there is a huge difference between their learning curves and mine. In Qualcomm 80% of tasks are to debug, 10 % is removing compilation errors/warnings, and other works like shifting a set of code from one version to another. Only 10% of work is where you will actually get the chance to code. So, if you code so little you will automatically lose your coding skills. So, if you love coding and want to continue learning coding, Qualcomm is no place for you.

I was part of OneIT, Bala Meka team so below are only relevant for that org No clear path for career progression, apparently each team has a quota for no of promos in a year(as per my then manager) which doesn't make any sense at all Especially when I've seen a better frequency of promos in higher level manager roles than entry level engineers every year I was there, which baffles me to this day. This particularly demotivated me after my initial years. I even saw a colleague in the same entry level role for more than 5 years while a manager got promoted twice in 6 years during the same period again mind blown, Lateral hires are for some reason greatly preferred to internal candidates, I've seen entry level engineers with offers that are almost 2x than the internal folks with higher experience, not exactly sure about the reasonings there. Completely Non sensical performance reviews and sub-par hikes with well versed excuses every year often involving factors out of their control like senior management/ economic downturn etc. Visible bias from team(some members) if above behaviour is questioned, Have observed some team members being snubbed(read as eventually driven out) for voicing out similar issues or dissatisfaction with their work/careerpath which in my book is a red flag