Hearing rumors that the Q is going to dump the Crapdragon and focus exclusively on connectivity: modems, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. Because the low end of the market is occupied by MTK and we occupy the high end, but all of the high end customers... — read more 

Nuff said

http://www.econmatters.com/2015/06/how-companies-are-using-pip-to.html

Last interview tip of the day. If you really want the job at a particular company, it's really really important you know where the company is at in the interview cycle for that position. That is, did they just start interviewing for that position or... — read more 

Here's another interview tip. If you're looking for a career change and would really like to work at a company that's notorious for doing those heavily involved technical "solve this problem" phonescreen or onsite interview, learn this very important... — read more 

During the course of my career hunt, there were a lot of good employers that really wanted to hire people with skills they needed, and those were the employers that you really want to spend a lot of time with listening and trying to figure out if it... — read more 

If anyone from IT is reading this board, can you help check how many people are checking this board and for how long per day? It'd be interesting to compute the number of man hours are spent on this board and compare that to the shortfalls shown by... — read more 

Engrish plofessol likely has more RSUs vested than any of you people at the Q who didn't join via an acquisition. This allows him the luxury of doing whatever he wants while on the qualcomm board's time, including teaching english to all the H1B... — read more 

Winner can post and loser has to leave forever!

Im not shore what's market cap ? I thought (# shares) x (price of a share) = market cap. Well, on the market cap for QC, it was 109 billion, then the stock price went down, and the market cap said 107 billion. That makes sense. The price decreased... — read more 

Thanks to the program management office under the direction of S this can be as simple as supporting a particular FEM or some other variation of a board. If you can't fudge numbers that are comprehensible from the comfort of our current position (ie... — read more 

Rest and vest. Ah.....

I have checked couple of other companies profile on this site and I found the post comes every 2/3 months or so. While in Qualcomm profile, jeezaloo... People are just posting any thing other than any layoff activity every 2-3 hours. Good for this... — read more 

M&A will not save QC despite S&M's statements. Intel will dominate in the data center. Competition will crush useless managers at QC. How can QC do well when too many projects keep failing and obsolete managers aren't fired ? B. Failed projects by... — read more 

Except maybe for Jana, Steve, and the Board. What a waste of money. Now borrowed bond money will need to be paid back for shares that are now underwater.

I think for maybe $100, I can find 20 folks from Bangalore that do the actual interview puzzle questions for me during the phone screen. Why should I limit myself to solving these interview questions in O(n^2) worst case just myself, when I can use... — read more 

1) Professional engineers don't need two bosses. This could save significant money by eliminating redundancy. 2) Engineers waste far too much time in meetings. This should be limited to no more than 3 hours per week. If the redundant layer of useless... — read more 

This is evident in the Intel layoff forum posts; they are more mellow and courteous there. The disgusting and demeaning posts on the Q layoff forum just show how screwed up the culture is at the Q, from racists (and the cliques) to those sr dir who... — read more 

Just heard that the Ops review that is scheduled for the beginning of July has been postponed. Am wondering if this is the beginning of the widescale layoffs. The number being thrown around is 3K although with PIPs and elimination of... — read more 

Hint, this f**king idiot likes to do the same irrigating thing over and over again cause he doesnt have any creativity. Find this same trait in your team and Fire his fruit cake a$$. There are plenty of back door POSITIONS that he can take at Black... — read more 

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This is how they do it silently when they don't find any other excuses. Sometimes, a re-org to change your manager prior to the goal-changes occurs as well so the new (excited) manager does the trick and the former one doesn't get his hands dirty.

Q is 30+ years old. Last year, people in the executive suite started to retire. This year it's SVP and VP retirement time. The urge to retire will move into lower ranks as time goes by. Within the next 6 months, expect a lot of people announcing... — read more 

Yher you go... Apple (AAPL) to Design TDDI Chips In-House June 22, 2015 8:50 AM Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is said to be developing touch and display driver integration (TDDI) chips in-house, according to Digitimes. The report noted that the TDDI solutions... — read more 

Folks, Will get straight to the point. I am 42, have been working for QC for 16 years now and have been stuck at Senior Staff for the last 7 years now. My manager is 5 to 6 years younger than me - group of 9 people, every single other person is in... — read more 

While our big U.S. technology companies are more interested in returning shareholder value via financial engineering, technology companies abroad are investing for the long term into R&D and patents....If this trend keeps up, U.S. companies are in... — read more 

Male Communications Engineer Jewish, just like most of executive management Ability to add numbers and make a budget In some cases, these are virtually the ONLY skills that were required in order to earn the rank of VP at Qualcomm by age 35. — read more 

What are MRend and CAmon working on? How much QCT management laid off so far?

Better world out there Fact: Company has bought back billions of stock, but share count has even gone UP. Wealth transferrr to managers execs who don't work at all, spend time in pompouss meetings, saying their engineers will work weekends to get... — read more