Qualcomm

Private offices are available for staff and higher positions, sometimes even with a window and a view. Excellent health benefits, including an on-site clinic for San Diego employees. They certainly try to give you private offices based on your title. Unfortunately, it encourages people to rise to the occasion and still distract their neighbors. They give you free sodas.

Their IT department is a strong asset, and their top place to work ranking is largely well-deserved.

CCAs aren't their strong point. It's critical to my job and to our customers.

I have been a one-man show before using Allegro. But now, I have to sit next to someone who can draw cartoons on silkscreen but can't be left alone to move copper without me. I don't have time to do it myself (fight the Mentor DALMS and Boardstation software) and have my Labview code working before the assembled board comes back.

I have spent decades in cubicle farms. I got along pretty well with my neighbors. Still, I was looking forward to having an office with a door on it.

Stupid me. A big fat waste of money on Qualcomm's part.

Prepare to work odd hours so you can avoid having your spirit crushed by H1Bs sharing their voicemail and number dialing activity with everyone inside a 20 ft radius.

No department is immune from this practice, apparently.

It never ceases to amaze me what I am eventually able to produce. Not even in my wildest dreams.

But, it saddens me to realize how much extra time I had to commit from my life to make this happen because I didn't have the best tools and the best support possible.