Pros: - Casual culture and flexible working hours. - Some very smart colleagues. - Leader in wireless chipset business. - You will learn a lot about the product and how to tackle some complex challenges.

Cons: Experience depends a lot on what group you are in and how well the work is aligned with your interests. It is very easy to become pigeonholed into working solely on an obscure feature, such as some module of a particular chipset that does X. Effort over results: Promotion is largely based on how long you have been at Qualcomm, not necessarily your effectiveness as an engineer. There is also the pressure to show that you have been working hard by sending useless email updates at late hours. Very process-oriented: On an email thread with a technical issue, a common tactic is to incrementally CC higher-ranked engineers/managers to passive-aggressively attempt to expedite progress. What starts as an email exchange about an issue reported by a customer rapidly turns into a 50-email long thread with at least 2 VP-level engineers, 5 senior staff, 10 senior engineers, etc. Too many meetings. Large duplication of effort: There are a lot of similar projects between different divisions, such as QCT and Corporate R&D. Relatively low salary: HR needs to offer more compelling reasons to stay at Qualcomm other than the San Diego beach lifestyle.

Pros: You are surrounded by incredibly talented and intelligent people. Compensation is fair. Facilities are top of the line, and any resource you need can easily be made available to you (books/classes/etc).

Cons: Incredibly tough interview process. Sadly, some questions are not even relevant to the work you will be doing.

Pros: Good benefits and salary with smart people.

Cons: Awful WLB. Managers are disengaged. Upper management only cares about business. They don’t take your career goals and daily satisfaction into account and only prioritize business needs. Also, there's a 5-day in-person mandate, or they basically said you can leave the company or they’ll let you go.