Poor senior management, onerous open source processes, process-heavy
Poor senior management, onerous open source processes, process-heavy
Your experience may vary widely by division, but in general some things are done well:
- Automatic header files from RTL
- Capital expenditure for HW, SW, FPGA emulation
- Automatic build, boot, some CI infrastructure
QCT, specifically, is very process-heavy.
QC just lost its entire custom CPU core team after they bungled the Datacenter division. This is a huge blunder for a chip company to lose its entire custom CPU team. They are bleeding talent right now.
Core teams do work, and then there are root teams per customer.
A lot of QCT firmware teams don't like to adopt standards or open-source software.
Linux development is very process-heavy, with small things needing legal approval.
Management was great under the founders but is progressively losing its way. Current "leaders" are in panic mode, and if they go the route of 30 billion dollar buybacks, that's the beginning of the end.
Even after layoffs, there's still a lot of fat in SD, lots of layers of management, and too many status collectors.
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