One of the most boring jobs I've ever had - Staff Software Engineer Qualcomm Employee Review

2.0
Apr 19, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits at Qualcomm are very good -- free medical/dental/vision. Decent 401K match. ESPP is good too (stock is doing very well). Free gym membership. There's a good work/life balance here. Compensation is also pretty good (but I can't comment on the bonus plan).

Cons

This was one of the most boring jobs I ever had. It turned out to be more of a sustaining/maintainence role. Bug fixing occupied about 80% of my time. There's very little feature development going on in San Jose. Most of the significant work is happening in India.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

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