He has no leadership skills whatsoever to lead the efforts of his 35+ reports, our group is failure and I feel ashamed of belonging to it. The biggie is coming and he keeps hiring people for whom he doesn't really have a project. It seems he only... — read more 

Does anybody know if Qualcomm is offering outplacement assistance for layed off workers? They used to offer Drake Beam Morin assistance years ago. It was somewhat helpful in a previous layoff.

Layoffs in customer engineering have begun. Just got meeting notice from my Sr. Director.

Namaste.

I mean, with the pending Avago merger, I'll probably get laidoff again next year. But at least my RSU's have doubled at Broadcom. And I think under change of control, my remaining RSUs will vest immediately if I were to be laidoff as part of the... — read more 

Rather than troll the SD real estate blogs, like sdlookup, redfin, zillow, and piggington to really discuss real estate with people that really know what they are doing and talking about, I'll just troll here and scream the sky is falling, the sky is... — read more 

Qualcom suffers from the same issue as Intel. They have this big money maker (licensing) and use the money to support all sort of stupid projects that will never yield a single penny of revenue. These projects are pets of senior management which is... — read more 

Kusi TV Professor says lay off impact on housing price significantly check this video

SM is good at cost down and already cut many departments that didn't make enough money. For example, QMC, Ethernet, power line,... etc. MTK still keep Ethernet and xDSL departments. Is cost down the only way in future?

Qualcomm a US company does business internationally, and earns profits internationally, but it should only Hire US citizens, why? explain that please You can sell a chip in a foreign country, but must not hire a foreign citizen of course, thats... — read more 

http://www.bubbleinfo.com first entry in his blog. short story = no biggie.

This gravy train got gift of explosive smartphone growth for last 6+ year (iPhone triggered?) and it's then (degraded but still largely same) patent revenue framework which good Xmas gift of exploding ASP and volume while its management projected... — read more 

Please rest assured that we will take care of you the Qualcomm Way to ensure that your transition to your next opportunity is as smooth and stress free as possible. To quote Steve Jobs, many of you do not "see it (now), but it (will turn) out that... — read more 

Because I'm sure there are plenty of people that would be motivated to go, especially if there was a bigger carrot to go. I know I sure would. Until then, I'll just keep "working from home"

I don't give a shit.

I didn't write a single architecture, design, implementation documentation, nor leave and comments in any of my code. Or that I didn't bother to check in any of my code into version control, and that my laptop that has the code isn't an IT standard... — read more 

Yawn....So what's up people. What's going on in the office today?

BUT BUT BUT... I thought JANA was going to save us!!!!

find something tension free

Cheap place to live. good outdoor activities, all tech companies are there, close to denver

US companies should be hiring US citizens. This idea of cost cutting by sending US jobs overseas really needs to be hit hard by the government, and by the market. Despite the hype of the QGOV talking heads, this is not a company who gives a crap... — read more 

Given that this forum does not offer sticky posts , it might be good to post http://tiny.cc/WhatAboutMe reminder once a day. Post any comments on main thread directly plz.

Para espanol, oprima numero dos... If you are a hardware engineer, press 3 and you will be transferred to the Beijing call center where you will be connected to an engineer that will be transitioning your work. If you are a software engineer, press 4... — read more 

Why wait???

Yeah, I know. It's against company policies to buy derivatives to hedge against the possibility of your vested RSUs from declining in value...But hey, pretty soon a lot of us aren't going to be employees anyway so those company policies won't apply... — read more 

Successful enterprise, quickly loosing market in maturing industry. Also mismanaged during fast growth (saw this at Nortel) becase sense of ownership is gone. * Polish it up QUICKLY, and get profitability close to target = 20% which for HW is not bad... — read more 

I said this before, and I'll say it again....Current employees of Qualcomm should never EVER use their own money to buy more shares of qualcomm stock beyond what the company has already given to you (either as stock options or RSU).....Doing so puts... — read more 

So I found a job in San Diego!!!!! unfortunately, my title goes back to being a "Senior Software Engineer" but despite a downgrade in the title from Staff to Senior., my total comp package will be about $209k/year in san diego, which is about where I... — read more