Fast-paced company with mediocre management
Fast-paced company with mediocre management
As one of the major suppliers to wireless industries, Qualcomm leads many IC designs in wireless, modem, and also microprocessors. You can definitely learn a lot of skills and knowledge in the most up-to-date circuit design in this fast-paced company. The benefits are really good—you barely spend money visiting doctors.
Since the design pace is really fast, managers will try very hard to push you even though the deadline is not feasible. Also, the promotion is really political. If your manager does not like you, your promotion will be very slow no matter how hard you work.
The company is getting bigger and bigger. As a result, politics is a necessary evil. But since too many mediocre managers are dominating the company, the direction of the entire company is getting vague and undetermined.
Qualcomm is facing competition from China and Korea, and the only way to win this battle is to get rid of those un-useful management, meetings, and hierarchies.
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San Diego, California, United StatesAugust 30, 2013Applied online through a web job post. It took several weeks before I received a response from HR. I got a call from the hiring manager to set up a phone interview. The interview went well, and I was asked to come to San Diego for an onsite interv
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San Diego, California, United StatesAugust 1, 2013The interview process typically consists of 2-3 phone interviews followed by an on-site interview. These interviews are mostly technical. The on-site interview was a full-day event. The interview questions covered topics such as: * Low-power IC des
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Red Bank, New Jersey, United StatesJune 1, 2012The interview process was pretty average. I met with five engineers individually. They each asked questions regarding things on my resume and also wanted me to expand on listed items. We also discussed the environment of my previous jobs and what Q
