Limited Career Growth
Limited Career Growth
- Learn a lot initially.
- San Diego is a great place to live.
- Limited career growth: If you request a different project after completing your current assignment, you are discouraged and given boring tasks.
- Expected to work on one project and only one project for the entire duration at Qualcomm.
- Lots of politics: People take credit for work you do, and ask for help behind directors/VPs.
- Line management: Your review, bonus, and raise are determined by a third party whom you see only during the review period. Your manager/tech lead has very little impact during the bonus/promotion meetings.
- Compensation is very low compared to salaries in the Bay Area. San Diego is not that much cheaper to live.
- New innovation in hardware only. As a software engineer, you will only be responsible for bug fixes and hacks; the hardware and system teams will reincorporate them into the next design.
- No culture: No team-building events, no company events. Teams are very distant; everyone is doing their own thing. Team members don't even eat lunch together most of the time! In the three years I have been here, my team has only had one team-building event, and there have only been two company events (one for a 25-year anniversary).
- Get rid of line management; it only hurts competent employees.
- Provide opportunities to move out of projects so employees can learn new technologies.
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I 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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I joined as a contractor, then rolled over to full-time. My first interview for the contract position was a Skype call, and the questions were mainly based on my resume. For the second interview for full-time, I was interviewed by three people, and
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The interview covered SystemVerilog and UVM questions. I was tested on design logic such as flip-flops and multiplexers (MUX), including the implementation of gates using MUX. A couple of behavioral questions were also asked.
Engineer
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 StatesFebruary 1, 2014I joined as a contractor, then rolled over to full-time. My first interview for the contract position was a Skype call, and the questions were mainly based on my resume. For the second interview for full-time, I was interviewed by three people, and
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San Diego, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2020The interview covered SystemVerilog and UVM questions. I was tested on design logic such as flip-flops and multiplexers (MUX), including the implementation of gates using MUX. A couple of behavioral questions were also asked.
