Qualcomm

Good pay.

Good benefits (although they are getting worse over time).

You work with really smart people.

They just announced a 15% workforce reduction (layoffs).

Politics, politics, politics. If you want to get promoted, you need to learn to play the political game very early.

Culturally, the company is stuck in its old ways. There was always a focus on "out-executing the competition." This sounds good on paper but results in a lot of shortcuts and tons of technical debt in both HW and SW. This leads to further band-aids/hacks, which just perpetuates the core issues.

Fire yourselves.

Qualcomm needs to do what MSFT has done in the past: stop all chip production and spend 6 months to 1 year cleaning up a bunch of their years of technical debt.