Great first job, but not a place to stay for talented young professionals
Great first job, but not a place to stay for talented young professionals
- Great benefits.
- Living in San Diego.
- Relatively high pay for the area.
- Working with smart and talented people (if you are lucky enough to be on the right team).
- Seeing your work be commercialized quickly.
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No matter how much they try to promote this as a plus, there is no work-life balance (at least in QCT).
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Too much pointless politics – a week of meetings for one line of code.
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24/7, seven days a week of stress, since issues are always "urgent" and need to be fixed immediately, no matter the time.
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Middle management likes to give artificial pressure for no reason.
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Doesn't always hire the most talented people.
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Value your employees.
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Value talent over time spent.
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Need to cut down on some of the middle management and promote younger, talented engineers quicker.
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Fire engineers who are not performing up to par.
Even though I listed a lot of cons, Qualcomm was a great place to work, especially for a first job. However, it is not a place where you would want to stay for your career (unless they start some cultural shift).
I received another job offer and didn't think twice about leaving, even though I had high performance review ratings and was slated for a promotion.
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San Diego, California, United StatesOctober 1, 2017I applied online. Two weeks later, I had a first phone chat with the team manager. The following week, I had two technical phone interviews. A week after that, I received an invitation for an on-site interview at the San Diego headquarters. A week l
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San Diego, California, United StatesOctober 8, 2026I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. The interview process is very simple, but rather long. They scheduled 6 technical interviews spanning over multiple weeks, four of which were in one on-site session. I did get the off
