Pros: Good work-life balance, working directly on the market product.

Cons: The quality is very decent. There's nothing new to learn.

Pros: The company has flexible hours, making it easy to do the work whenever you want. The compensation also includes a good package, which features a good salary and healthcare. The work is interesting, as you are always working on new technologies that are yet to come out. There is also strong encouragement to enhance your tech skills. They have monthly classes on hot communication topics, which allow you to learn and keep up-to-date with what's going on. Qualcomm also organizes various events every now and then, such as "Summer on the Lawn". Also, being in San Diego, the weather is always awesome and always a ball to hang out on the weekends.

Cons: Unforeseen issues that come up and have to be solved immediately.

Pros: - Excellent benefits such as an extremely well-matched 401k, free healthcare, dental, and vision. - Decent salary with yearly reviews. - Good company culture with good people and very little red tape compared to other companies.

Cons: Wage increases and bonuses are based off of an opaque algorithm (based off of inputs from your yearly review). Qualcomm simply offers you an increase off of this algorithm and does not allow you to negotiate at all. Qualcomm also gives out large sums of RSUs instead of cash bonuses. This is supposed to incentivize you to stay with the company and work to increase the stock price, but ultimately it’s a way for them to have you chase a golden carrot for the rest of your career. You essentially lose large amounts of money if you end up quitting, and the value of your bonus is tied to the price of the stock which is subject to fluctuations in the stock market. It is unlikely for you to end up in a high-level position as there are too many people at the company for substantial growth. Qualcomm uses ancient custom software, and in general has a terrible development environment that makes the job unbearable. Because of the bad development environment, a lot of the work ends up being administrative, rather than being productive. Work-life balance can be out of whack depending on customer needs.