Murthy promoted a lot of mini-murthy (all Indians of course) while he was at Q. So even though he has moved on, his style of pompous yet incompetence lives on.God bless

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America’s immigration mess is entirely self-inflicted. In 1965 the United States changed its laws to encourage immigration. Mexico didn’t change America’s laws. Ever since, American businessmen have knowingly, eagerly hired illegal immigrants in... — read more 

Did they work at the same time in Qualcomm?

Guys you suck. All of you. You are people who end up in Qualcomm because you guys are worst in the industry .. Qualcomm will go down with Arm, Google, , Apple, Samsung and Intel rip you guys apart. People will be laid off soon. At Qualcomm.

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So much for Cristiano's "we're back" lol Tons of work on the horizon with same or lower pay.

It's no longer a "conspiracy theory" ... now a massive, multi-year government study has conclusively proven that cell phone radiation causes brain tumors. It also causes heart tumors, by the way, and now the entire cell phone industry is freaking out... — read more 

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Can someone give me a break down how focal is done at Qcom? It looks like Intel is adopting there process. There are rumors of having a focal review every quarter where people dont perform, thery are out.

What was life at Qcom like with Murthy and has it improved after he left. What was the view of him. Intel hates him. Actually there are many high level execs that came to intel and they are all the same. I could only imagine what Qcom was like with... — read more 

If we drop out of Apple deal will you take Murthy back?

Got an offer recently. Just curious what is the daily life of customer engineer?

Please can you tell us what we are in for. Any anecdotes of typical Murthy are more than welcome

A credible rumor says that avgo didn't win the NFC deal with a certain fruit company. That group is most likely going to get Hock-t-sized by it's ruthless CEO. https://www.thelayoff.com/t/Hy3YbwH All is not well in the chip industry...Unless you're... — read more 

We drop the calls you dropped the ball

Everyone gets promoted - at least 25 pages of names and titles. No bonus/salary increase/RSUs though.

What is the amount of the retention bonus people got?

I've left Q a while back now and have been working at one of the silicon valley superstars for a while now. In Q I was a software engineer doing mobile firmware in the superstar company I do software engineering in the backend and I'm on the younger... — read more 

Everytime during the all hands meeting, SM will say attrition is high, and HR is sending out this survey to selected folks to findout why. Has anyone ever got this survey? And why the hell do they need to conduct this survey when the answer is... — read more 

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13571602/1/qualcomm-ceo-you-either-win-technology-transitions-or-you-don-t-live-to-tell-the-day.html "But I wasn't one of those kids that took apart radios and put them back together. I did take things apart, but it... — read more 

The reason? Qualcomm didn't even need to go through with the 12,000+ layoff. After the first tiny percentage of the layoff, maybe of the top engineers left on their own...And now, Q needs to hire more....Lol.

Rumor is this office will be closed in less than 12 months.

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We had over a dozen marketing guys, engineering directors & VPs go to Google IO this year. Honestly, its great to see that our budgets still allow us to participate in industry conferences but IO is not a marketing meetup like CES or MWC and none of... — read more 

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Blue team f---ed ya all. Enjoy the layoffs