Not a great place for women
Not a great place for women
Big company benefits: good HR structure, opportunity to build skills, and organize the rest of your life around work.
Smart people to work with: accomplished, modest, and of great attitude.
It can be a great place to work if you are with the right manager and in the right team.
Growth largely depends on the team and your role. It can be great if you are in the right place at the right time.
The percentage of women in development teams is terrible - only about 3 in every 100.
This leads to several issues of gender bias, mostly unconscious.
The system is very hierarchical - management doesn't like engineers to disagree with them, and any sense of disagreement can get a lot of negative attention.
The performance review process is not very transparent - the manager has quite a lot of power in it, even though the evaluation matrix includes other teams.
Processes are not very well defined - this creates a lot of inefficiency and overhead to engineering projects that the management doesn't account for in their schedules and timelines to achieve milestones.
Focus directly on unconscious gender bias, especially for managers. Take engineering feedback to improve processes and invest heavily in efficiency.
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I applied through an internal referral. The first phone screen was with the manager and was very general, asking questions such as how to debug an infinite loop in a testbench. In total, there were 4 technical rounds and a lunch with the manager.
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One telephonic round and after that two face-to-face rounds. After that, one HR discussion. All the rounds were fairly technical in aspect, mostly focused on work experience, OS, linked lists, data structures, and coding in C. An offer was given t
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The interview covered basics of wireless communications and bit manipulations in C language. There were some questions about ARM, due to my previous experience. Behavioral questions focused on my willingness and interest in joining Qualcomm.
Senior Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesJune 1, 2016I applied through an internal referral. The first phone screen was with the manager and was very general, asking questions such as how to debug an infinite loop in a testbench. In total, there were 4 technical rounds and a lunch with the manager.
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaFebruary 1, 2013One telephonic round and after that two face-to-face rounds. After that, one HR discussion. All the rounds were fairly technical in aspect, mostly focused on work experience, OS, linked lists, data structures, and coding in C. An offer was given t
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Hyderābād, Telangana, IndiaMarch 1, 2019The interview covered basics of wireless communications and bit manipulations in C language. There were some questions about ARM, due to my previous experience. Behavioral questions focused on my willingness and interest in joining Qualcomm.
