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Awesome HR and accommodations, but the work could have been more interesting

Interim Engineering Intern
Former Employee
Worked at Qualcomm for 1 year
January 13, 2014
San Diego, California
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Good work-life balance, competitive pay, San Diego is beautiful, brilliant coworkers, housing and relocation were completely covered, R&D projects are very good, stable job outlook, HR (Campus Team) is by far the best of any company I've ever dealt with, great mentorship, executive speaker series, and they even held an intern hackathon.

Cons

We didn't use agile software development, so there was very little flexibility or change as your project progressed.

I had a project that was almost identical to the project that I had done the summer before at a different company. Projects are assigned based on what you have a proven track record of doing, and not what you want to do in the future.

Shuttles go in loops around campus and can take 15+ minutes to pick you up if you don't time it right. You could get banned from using the shuttles if you abuse them by taking them to an office that's closer to a mall or food court.

Advice to Management

Work across divisions and teams more.

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