Senior hardware engineer - Anonymous employee Qualcomm Employee Review

2.0
Jul 8, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Number 1 in mobile; office in San Diego; good company name on resume

Cons

Lots of politics Working bees easily do 10 hrs + a day, could spend up to 16 hrs a day in crunch time, when your boss hits the gym and do 9 to 5 everyday Compressed schedule and unrealistic Technically incompetent engineer somehow become your boss or lead Incompetent lead would shield emails and meetings from working bees so only he will be on the spot light but expect you to know all the information needed to get the job done even though he doesn't share any info with you Moving up is all about how well you talk not work Growth in general is super slow Expect no promotion in 10 years if your boss or lead doesn't like you Bottom line, would not recommend to friends

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