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Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Qualcomm for 2 years
May 13, 2014
San Diego, California
5.0
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Pros

Q really encourages personal development. There are lots of opportunities to participate in training sessions from interesting external folks. There are also good tech talks from interesting external folks (e.g., the CIO of GitHub recently gave a talk).

Upper management is open to hearing feedback on how to improve things for engineers. It's a very engineer-centric organization. They're pretty lenient with working from home.

Cons

It can be demanding if you don't know how to stand up for yourself. You have to know how to say, "No, I'm going home."

Advice to Management

Gotta work on that "culture of blame." There are a small group of (influential) people that run around like chickens with their heads cut off, screaming at everyone blocking their particular project of interest. I personally have learned to ignore these people, but I know it really stresses some folks out.

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