Not a company to give a life time - Senior Software Engineer Qualcomm Employee Review

2.0
May 20, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Respected company to work for. Privacy/freedom of work for an employee Very work oriented so good learning experience

Cons

Slow in terms of giving promotions Start-up kind of culture, Qualcomm works as a big production machine which mechanize the output from its employees Communication channels with in the company are poor and too much segregated Big void in responsibilities of a managers and engineers, engineers are not involved in the planning and have almost no say Working late and on weekends is very common

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5.0
Mar 6, 2026
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Pros

Lot of work so can learn a lot

Cons

Onsite work so no wfh

4.0
Jun 27, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great design team. Learn a lot in the project. Great resources for self motivated technical improvement.

Cons

Big wave of talented engineers leaving in some critical departments. CEO lacks responsibility on the company development. CEO and CFO have been selling their stocks a lot every year.

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