Pros: Beautiful city, good weather, wonderful office, and the colleagues are nice.

Cons: More and more colleagues are leaving. There's more work but less money from 2015 to 2016 because of the decline.

Pros: Good benefits, competitive pay, and certain perks that may be attractive to some (swimming pool, modern gyms, special events, and fairs). Generally good-natured people at the lower levels. Work that can occasionally be very satisfying in the end product, with a product and technology that is arguably fundamental to modern society.

Cons: Merciless workload, which is not a problem by itself. But in many roles, that hard work resulted in limited intellectual pay-off and recognition. In the 1-2 years leading up to when I left, the company was in a constant state of cost-cutting, which meant a lack of people for the work to be done. This of course led to constant stress and long hours in an endless cycle of tape-outs, sampling dates, and process changes. In more than a few former colleagues, all this stress directly impacted health. For most roles, the overall company culture values quantity of work and expertise in a narrow set of skills versus a diversity of experience and employee development, which makes it extremely difficult to move within the company. This applied to dozens of internal opportunities during my last 6 months when I wanted to try something new, but I got only one interview. I consequently started to doubt my own abilities as an engineer until I was hired by an arguably more-prestigious employer, which made me realize maybe it was the Qualcomm (especially QCT/QTI) culture and not me.

Pros: A lot of learning opportunities with teams.

Cons: Corporate culture and management