Venkata ‘Murthy’ Renduchintala was named president of new group that includes selling chips for personal computers in November
#Admin please remove racist posts
#Admin please remove racist posts
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Did Paul Jacobs destroy QCOM? Let's try to be fair to SM in this situation. I think we can all agree he is nothing short of a powerpoint presentation in human form and a shit leader, but he is not clueless. He is probably well aware, as many of us... — read more
More BCG consultants have arrived from MA.
Vast number of non essential jobs will be cut. Teams doing similar work will be coalesced and non essential people will get the boot. Upcoming severance packages won't be as generous. Package is going to be 1 month base salary and 1 week salary for... — read more
BCG consultants still in San Diego working in next round of lay offs, rumors is that chip and royalty business will stay together.
However, they reduce the chip business significantly to 6000 employees
A trend?
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2016/01/a-new-vision-to-revive-cdma-business/
Offer from WiPower
The offer is solid and the work seems exciting. How does WiPower business look like these days? Is it a risky move? I have to relocate to San Diego if I decided to join. Thanks!
Next Round of Layoffs?
I heard through a very reliable source that QC is going to have another massive round of layoffs in the June timeframe. The number that I heard was 3000 in San Diego alone. The aim being to downsize the company. Has anyone else heard about this?
QC patents
When do they expire?
The remaining employees at Qualcomm are a lot like dinner leftovers...
*Food that no one wants in the first place. *Food that tastes/performs stale. *Food that if you actually try to absorb doesn't really give you any real benefit extra unnecessarily causes you to carry extra pounds of fat. *Food that is best handled by... — read more
How to spot an ailing tech company....
Copied from another thread... @FUCBQxQ-wsf For a tech company, it's not a question of if there's going to be a layoff, it's simply a question of when. There was a time in Qualcomm's history in which people would kill to get into that company. And the... — read more
Is this Qualcomm forum or Google's? Every second post is about Google.
Most you you don't have brains to make it to Google anyway. Stop dreaming.
Google obsession
You know there's lot of hype around google's compensation package, usually by people that didn't get one...But, here's the rub. If you're good enough to get into Google, chances are you're probably going to be able to find position anywhere that is... — read more
Another weird interview. Do you get "fist bumped during an interview by an interviewee?"
I don't get some of the younger people. So I'm interviewing someone for an entry software engineer job. And after I introduce myself and proceeded to start shaking the interviewee's hand, he closes his hands and tries to give me a fist-bump like... — read more
Speaking of Google rejections, I got rejected too.
I know someone who got in though. Gets 270k, all in.
If layoff not happen on March, then no further layoff
What do you think?
There's really no difference between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump followers...The only difference is
both candidates want to help a different type "loser" group who can't make it by themselves and think the government should take care of them. Bernie's followers don't want to work that hard, are jealous of people financially wealthier and more... — read more
When do they start perm/green card process?
Anyone knows? I am waiting for the perm process. Thanks.
Google rejected me after phone interview even though my answer was correct.
I think they are discriminating against Qualcomm employees. Bunch of losers!
Wow. Lot's of of Apple, Google, Facebook relocations from San Diego
A few of my rentals in the Silicon Valley are going to be vacant, as the tenants ended up cashing in their company and bought a house. I was worried that I was going to find a problem finding tenants in February, but my email is getting swamped with... — read more
5 companies that lost the most buying back their own shares. You guessed it.
The companies with five biggest paper losses: IBM: - $9.8 billion -Qualcomm: -$7.4 billion -aha, here we are! American Express: -$4.1 billion Exxon Mobil: -$3.9 billion Hess: -$2.9 billion Chevron: -$2.8 billion Interesting anecdote is that stalwarts... — read more
Got rejected from Google, again.
I interviewed last year as well but was unprepared. For the last one year I prepared for 2 hours a dat and 4 hours a day on weekends but I still could not make it. Any tips on how to do better?
Qualcomm management style...
If Qualcomm would change its management style and lead, everyone would be happier & more productive...see this LinkedIn post. Not sure if you have to be signed into your LinkedIn acct. https://www.linkedin.com/hp/update/6102514091526545408
Qualcomm wants more diversity
Qualcomm is becoming more racist, it says it wants more "diversity" be prepared for more people being put into positions not because of their qualifications but the color of their skin or gender.
Google, please buy our server chips!
If any Googlers are reading this post please ask your VP/Director to support ARM Servers.
If Qualcomm designed a toaster, it would go like this...
Building a better toaster Toaster Software Development Project History Day 1: My boss, an engineer from the pre-CAD days, has successfully brought a generation of products from Acme Toaster Corp's engineering labs to market. Bob is a wonder of... — read more
You are given an array of n unique integer numbers 0 <= x_i < 2 * n
You are given an array of n unique integer numbers 0 <= x_i < 2 * n Print all integers 0 <= x < 2 * n that are not present in this array. Example: find_missing([0]) = [1] find_missing([0, 2, 4]) = [1, 3, 5] # because all numbers are [0, 1, 2, 3, 4... — read more
Scientists question government's claim
This is a good one... A meteorite crashed into an engineering college in Vellore district (Tamil Nadu) on Saturday, causing an explosion that killed one man and injured three others, the Tamil Nadu government said on Sunday. Scientists, however, said... — read more
I was interviewing someone for a tech job yesterday, and it was really frustrating. I couldn't understand his English.
It was the most infuriating thing. I asked him to write a program to sort a linked list, and to comment his code well. After his code was done, I couldn't understand his written comments written in English. They didn't make sense, and his code didn't... — read more
Qualcomm vs. Intel - Data Center Server Wars
Nothing new here, but the article (link below) summarizes the potential Intel/Qualcomm wars quite nicely: Intel’s crown jewel these days is in the data center. It’s one of its fastest growing and most profitable divisions for the Santa Clara... — read more