No company is perfect but Broadcom is edging baseband and suffered loses which is a much better explanation than what greedy QC is doing. Plus CEO MBA boy announced 15% layoff company wide which amounts to ~4500 but so far only 1400 are let go. What... — read more
Ezra Pound
There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization.
Some tips for your next job
Make sure that your skillsets are inline with company's bigger goals and that you are not a dispensible side function. Do not take up a job without knowing which team you will be assigned. Stop-gap jobs can help you pay bills but network well without... — read more
What happened to Minimum Wage Worker Bitter Renter, and his/her posts about real estate falling 30+%?
Maybe he/she got RIF'd himself/herself and got a nice STFU after realizing even if he/she would be correct, it will be hard to buy real estate while unemployed. HA HA. Meanwhile, real data says north county inventory actually went DOWN this month... — read more
crocodile tears-part1
Lot of your colleagues say "ohh..i was supposed to be in that list" , "glad atleast you were out of this place" , "you will find good job soon" , "you got a great package". and when you arenot around they were talikng with others" glad the bottom 5%... — read more
Speaking to other owners of rental properties in Mira Mesa, it doesn't seem like any of the tenants that are H1-B were affected by this layoff.
Collectively, a few colleagues of mine were asking if any of the tenants on H1-B were affected. And every single one of my colleagues said, when they asked their tenant, they said no they were still working at the Q. So it seem like this layoff... — read more
Qualcomm now a great place to work again
Worst part of layoffs are over for good. I feel like a have job security and job satisfaction again.
Latika - I pine for you!
Send me the secret decoder ring
Very few cuts in staffing, IT, and finance. Hits were mostly across engineering teams...assuming they cut low performers & high seniority level.
We're the cuts in engineering across teams that aren't producing returns? -finance guy
This qcom section is dead
It looks like the now that the layoffs have completed, the majority of the Q people that use to come here have moved on, whether they were affected or not. That's good. Life goes on.. For the small percentage of people that still harp at the... — read more
someone keeps.......
deleting my post about the movie slum dog millionaire, because i use fictional characters names like jamal and latika. wtf qcomm, are you paranoid.
Cal warn numbers are up
http://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN.htm
1350 or 4500 or whatever Q laidoff doesn't compare with many more 1000s laidoff mentally, plus the demoralized, the puzzled, and the frauds.
...wondering if this is 10,000 or more. Somehow I was looking for this layoffs as a closure, a reset and fresh start. Well, it doesn't feel like it. It still feels hopeless, murky, cloudy, stale, gay... And well, I hope you feel differently...
Dont forget the hourly wage pledge
repeat it often
Qcom taking down more posts
so now we cant name the dirs or sr dirs that we know for a fact are incompetent.
Why so devious?
I have a really long story so it all started.... Click read all to continue.
$1 salary for SM
Come on SM, show some f***ing balls!!!! This is the only way to disprove your incompetence,
HR monitors this site ?
Do the HR folks monitor this site? I see some emails in which the response is from a HR investigator. Is that indeed true? Thanks.
Executives: Read the Speech Pope Francis Gave to Congress
http://time.com/4048176/pope-francis-us-visit-congress-transcript/ ..... “Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving the world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the area in which it operates, especially if... — read more
Murthy needs to leave, he and his surrounding (yes sir) crowd starting with KC did so much harm for us than people of Jana.
Many leads refuse to meet him unless he ask them to, he continues to give false statements in the quarterly QCT all hands and continues to manage by fear and stupedity. He fails to practice basic listening to what people is saying. Enough is enough ... — read more
Do executives really private jets?
With ubiquitous Internet acesss trough 4G services and incredible powerful laptops, what else does an executive needs to work non-stop during that business trip? Those airport waits can be used for catching up on email, those long flights in business... — read more
Executive Team: Tomorrow is your last chance to confess your sins to Pope Francis
Make good use of that brand new G650 corporate jet..... Pope Francis Visits New York Friday, September 25, 2015 .......... 6 p.m. Madison Square Garden Mass ..... Repent.
Higuest Paid CEOs in America, look who is No. 2.
http://bgr.com/2015/09/23/highest-paid-tech-ceo/
when the fall review begins
i like bonus and rsu
Qualcomm Android/Linux department VP Nish Abrol moves to Google
Not a good sign ...
Great Ad Placement Marketing!
Not only oustandingly awful graphics and text, but what target market savvy, placing QPorn on a site with POed, punch-drunk employees. So, was the "brain" graphic ad a secret marketing missiion locate the missing brains at the top.
Qualcomm being looted: $7 billion paid out in dividends and stock buybacks in FY 2014
Many of the posters here have it wrong focusing on small things like company jets. Big picture is that Qualcomm is now being looted by the Jacobs family and Jana Partners (Barry Rosenstein). In fiscal year ending 9/30/14 $4.5 billion went to purchase... — read more