Come March 6, Qualcomm Management and BOD are going to experience the power and wrath of capitalization...the loss of control. Shareholders have been poorly served by the current Management and Board. March 6 will be the beginning of necessary... — read more
New severance details
What is in the new package? Please Share
Qualcomm Cricket Stadium
So many damn Indians speaking hindi no more football, Qualcomm stadium will only have cricket .. and butter chicken will be on menu, no more hot dogs GTFO
AVGO back to the US by mid may!
It looks like the deal is done ! is it a good thing or a bad thing ?
QIPL -Work culture & Politics
QIPL is most bad place to work in inspite of highest paying company in Hyderabad List of worst wide spread bad practices that all directors , VPs , HR allow and follow (1)lot of politics and sycophancy to get good ratings. worse than aiadmk partymen... — read more
Just be patient
CA mentioned it will be very fast, but actually it needs some time. Directors will do the evaluation of their engineers and submit to VP, and VP will do the same thing to SVP. It takes time. It will be about a month from now. Let's see what happens... — read more
Will Q execute the layoff before the 3/6 stockholder meeting?
The is only one day left, no news. Why could not the manegement make a quick decision? Plus, won’t that convince the shareholders the current management can actually do something so they might vote for White? I cannot understand what the management... — read more
All these are diversion tactics of the fruit company
So that we get too busy with a bad deal with Broadcom, and there won't be any focus in non payment of dues by them.
File a JIRA
Open a jira ticket Assign to SM Feature request Description: Please fire my manager who can't code Tags: No longer required And why are there so many Indians fresh off the boat in SD? Send the boat back to Bombay.
What the heck does a PE do?
Other than get promoted to Vp after project bombs
5G National Security Concerns with AVGO Takeover are Overblown...
Fact: company employs hundreds if not thousands of workers from China, Iran, Russia without any type of DoD clearance.
Reservations please....
Would you like a window or aisle seat on the titanic?
What makes you stick with Qualcomm?
Why are you still here? Why did you come here in the first place? Look at the situation right now, uncertainity, unhappines, turmoil, greed, infighting, backstabbing. A reasonable and a logical move would be to jet immediately. Yet, almost everyone... — read more
Where do Qualcomm and Apple stand on the dispute ?
Resolved ? If so, is apple still a customer ?
One month per year severance?
I just read in another thread that Canadian employees receive one month per year when laid off. Can this be true? Isn't the severance policy company wide?
I love watching....
A slow motion train wreck...
Director+ levels demotion a solution the problem ?
Part of the problem the company is so bloated is perhaps/probably due to random promotions to friends and families and non contributors after certain level. wont QC be back to normal track, If folks starting Directors ( or equivalent ) and above are... — read more
Time to add Q to FANG?
FAQNG - pronounced f**g
Who here feels appreciated?
It's National Employee Appreciation Day! Aren't we lucky to be working for a company that appreciates its employees as much as Qualcomm? That sees us as its main asset and treats us as such? That would never try to pad the pockets of those on top... — read more
SD layoff number revealed: 3859
This is based on the savings of 1B. Leaked from a VP’s email caught by executive secretary. Good luck to all!!
Layoff before March 6
To show they are serious about the cost reduction to shareholders before the vote.
Layoffs, demotions, what's next?
Just wondering what's the next step in Qualcomm's quest for savings... We have layoffs, we have demotions, is simply firing people without a cause next? Well, let me rephrase that: firing people with a cause that suddenly appears out of thin air and... — read more
How many here think that Broadcom/AVGO is a Chinese company?
Just a raise of hands to determine the general dumbness factor here, because there is all this talk about China, chinese influence, the chinese communist party being behind this, and so on. Might explain a lot about the recent situation at Q if it... — read more
Corp R&D got layoff notice coming
I work in Corp r&d and got my heads up from my Jira pumping PhD useless director.
Trump Administration at Odds With Hock Takeover WSJ
Treasury BLUE Justice WHITE Defense WHITE CFIUS, which can advise the president to block takeovers by foreign companies on national security grounds, is chaired by the Treasury Department and includes members from other agencies... — read more
We were the first to feel the pain
We fell first - Qualcomm pays $975 million to resolve China antitrust dispute. Nobody cared. Now all see that Chinese business acts increasingly as an arm of the state, China is challenging America across Asia as the dominant power - last weekend Xi... — read more
20 % cut
The lists are ready 20 % cut from serious source good luck everybody
Broadcom is Broadcomm's biggest enemy.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/01/broadcom-ceo-hock-tan-aggressive-negotiations-with-amazon-hpe-others.html Tactics used by Broadcom include ripping up existing contracts and demanding higher prices for chips while threatening to cut off supply if... — read more
Q applicants are toxic
Got some not so positive feedback from a faang recruiter friend. Lots of negativity coming from q applicants. If you want to move on then you need to be positivity not negativity. Remember you are hired not only for skill but demeanor and personality... — read more
Save the Brasserie! (and the Mickey D's too)
https://www.google.com/amp/www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-fi-qcom-neighborhood-20180301-story,amp.html " at least a dozen Qualcomm executives lease storage lockers for their fine wines in the WineSellar’s three-story vault... — read more
Can I offer to be laid off?
Just wondering. I'm so tired of all of this, leaving with a nice severance check would come as a relief.
Final nail in Broadcom coffin
So, now that people are openly expressing national security concerns related to Broadcom takeover attempts and calling for reviews, anybody else thinks this could be a final nail in that coffin?... — read more
Formee President, DA
Anyone knows what happened? Why he left?
Stay Positive
Simple facts: If you work in a division making no money, work on pie in the sky projects, tough luck, you need to start looking - BRCM or no BRCM. Probably takeover should be least of your concern right now. For those in mobile CPU division, and work... — read more
Qualcomm Canada Inc.
Qualcomm Canada Inc will be completely shut down. Good riddance
Bad Info
Now that I am getting some real info, let me say that 90% or MORE of the info on here is completely made up. I think you will see some real info coming after the ASM....maybe not from me though. If you are an employee just check with your boss or... — read more
Performance criteria for Director and above
If you don't own a high visibility project with a direct impact to top or bottom line then you have no place in the company going forward. You have to be directly responsible for the outcome. It's high time the status collecting directors get... — read more