Qualcomm

Nice facilities. Good benefits, although this is getting worse in 2016. High-end technology.

Extremely political environment.

Promotions are only given to those in the inner clique.

Unreasonable deadlines leading to a very stressful environment.

Very long work hours and no work-life balance.

Incompetent middle management, as a result of the politicized promotions process.

Company is losing its competitive edge.

What company gives $95 million to the CEO when it is losing market share and its stock is severely underperforming?

The morale among the engineers is really low.

Clean up the middle management.

Diversify revenue sources.