Pros: 1. Good pay and good perks. 2. Good training programs. 3. Good for embedded engineers.

Cons: No work-life balance. Management wants you to put in long hours every day. It's not the company that it used to be 8 years ago when I joined. Too many cuts in travel. Appraisals became yearly this year.

Pros: Get to work on new technology, skills, and products in the mobile space. Very good on job training and an immense library and training resources. Good work and life balance in some divisions.

Cons: Promotions and career growth considerations are mostly on how much you can market yourself and communicate your work and accomplishments with cross-functional teams in your organization. This might be true in most big corporations. Non-core business divisions are ill-funded in R&D and not a very cooperative environment between divisions. A lot of upper management have been with the company a very long time compared to other companies; this impedes career growth and leads to more work per engineer at lower levels with resource and budget constraints.

Pros: Excellent benefits and work-life balance. Employees are smart and productive, mostly. Management is supportive of outside work activities.

Cons: To some extent, QUALCOMM has become like a government office. People who work hard, really work hard, but there are slackers who have been here for years and are not fired or laid off. The bonuses and salary are also not great. One problem with being in QUALCOMM is that there is no other company in San Diego where you can move, so you have to be satisfied with the salary that QUALCOMM pays you.