When I first started at Qualcomm decades ago, Irwin and crew's emphasis was always about innovation and pushing the envelope with IS-95. Years later, it was about pushing the envelope with HDR, and then again with OFDMA and its Flarion acquisition... — read more 

Do CEO's actually spend $95 million, or is the amount like a trophy and a way of keeping score? It just seems sort of, well, sick. Especially when there are pending layoffs.

Please populate this post with your thoughts,

Please be polite.

broadcom,samsung,intel,mediatek. are they better than qualcomm? as an individual contributor, I think we should still be able to get a decent salary to pay for the mortgage. The market is not bad these days. get layoff is a lucky thing as you get... — read more 

What questions would you ask Steve M in the All Hands Meeting next week if you knew your question would be anonymous?

If you look closely at the statistics, the Qualcomm layoffs are very biased. They hit older employees way beyond the statistical average. Is this trading experience for cheap labor or outright age discrimination.

Exposes the true QCOM culture and how dysfunctional it is..i also like how it has become the official employee forum for sharing the latest relevant news/company developments and is not propagandizing, unlike the QCdaily newsletters

Let the discussion begin as to why office snitches should be eliminated. We have one on here aka Anonymous59943.

Market seems pretty tough...not a single interview yet and I've been getting the word out about my availability since after the new year. I hope we are not at the start of a repeat of 2009..

Steve, Paul, I know you are not worried about getting layoff but if you accidentally stray on this blog, I want to let you know I absolutely trust you guys.

It's clear that Anonymous )59662,59653,59649,59648,59521,59428,58917,58801,58222,57977,57871,57226,55978,55950,55931,55855) are the same person. So why not use a pseudonym. My suggestion would be "The Patron Saint of Ellipses Laden Tech Rants... — read more 

When you Qualcomm employees need to travel internationally, Qualcomm puts you in a nice Business Class seat and a nice hotel.... When MediaTek employees need to travel internationally, they fly coach... Now think about how much travel everyone is... — read more 

Unfortunately, with the way things are in Qualcomm. If you are actually a good employee in the U.S. and completely document your architecture, design, implementation of your hardware/software/firmware etc, you really make it very easy for someone... — read more 

They were talking to me about it how in years pasted, free massages, and a $4000-5000 extra bonus for any medical/dental/eye/health credit..That was on top of an already good healthcare plan that is managed by United Healthcare.. (Qualcomm self... — read more 

I'm surprised Qualcomm hasn't adopted an unlimited but no accrued vacation policy yet to save on cost.... A lot of tech companies are already doing this....The basic idea behind it is employees have unlimited vacation, and if you want vacation, you... — read more 

Here's just some friendly advice. Take it with a grain of salt from a previous Web 1.0 web company employee that had a lot of unvested and vested stock grants... If you have a lot of of "in the money" stock options, or you have a pretty sizeable ESPP... — read more 

Where is well-placed sources within the organization have pointed out that another layoff might happen in the coming days. The Numbers range from 1000 to 2000

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-20/samsung-said-to-drop-qualcomm-chip-from-next-galaxy-smartphone.html

On one hand, you have employers that want to shaft U.S. workers by reducing pay, reducing compensation packages, moving job overseas, outsourcing,and throwing you into the unemployment lines. On the other hand, you have a government with a Liar in... — read more 

...so that you can have a baby in 1 month...since for the same money you spend on that 1 U.S. woman, you would be able to afford 9 overseas women, and get 9x more productivity in having a baby...

Is MLK day a working day for QCOM?

Since bean counters like to do bean counting math and propose hiring 6+ engineers in bangalore or china "for the same cost as hiring 1 engineer in the U.S.".... I think companies would save more money if they hired 20+ marketing people for the same... — read more 

http://retireby40.org/gave-up-engineering-career/

Welcome to the race to the bottom.... Not only will things be free, but companies will pay the customer to switch over... http://www.thestreet.com/story/13013670/1/qualcomm-qcom-stock-downgraded-today-at-drexel-hamilton.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO... — read more 

If U.S. companies can only compete on cost alone... It won't win against the asian players...even if it massively outsources everything.... The only advantage american companies have is if they can out-innovate everyone else and charge a higher... — read more 

Corp R&D plus marketing folks. Not sure of numbers yet but this info comes from VP whose team is affected, plus an HR person with direct knowledge.

The best jobs of 2015: (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/best-jobs-2015-120000200.html) No. 3: Software Developer Yes, two health care positions rose above software developer, last year's No. 1 job. But software developer has by no means been ousted... — read more 

Can anyone tell me what kind of severance pay they received? 2 weeks of pay per every year of service? more ? less? Any health benefits?

Just an observation...The ROI of any real estate that Qualcomm owns in SD is probably more than any sort of meaningful output out of most of Q's R&D budget these days....

my salary is ~$115k/year.. I put in about 70 hours/week minimum.. that's roughly.. $31.59/hr.. so really I only make ~$66k/year.. plus stress/pressures/anxieties.. it's priceless!!

Can everyone start posting their politics strategies here? Of particular interest are strategies that would help one survive multiple rounds of layoffs. We already have some info in the code comments thread, but i wanted to have a comprehensive... — read more 

A fellow employee just told me that he was told that there are to be two additional rounds of layoffs to take place in the coming year. I find that difficult to believe (it would just give the appearance of a continued downward spiral). Just curious... — read more 

Americans are aholes! Do I have freedom to express my opinion??? Did I harm anyone??

sent out ~50 resumes religiously for almost a month.. not one single call

I hope this company continues to crash and burn....

So it's actually kinda of funny. A lot of the H1-B's that I talk to are actually pretty ticked off at the offshoring to overseas offices too? Why? Well, most of the H1-B's are very well educated, from the top rank schools overseas that had to fight... — read more