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Good Learning, Eroding Foundation

Senior Staff Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Qualcomm for 9 years
November 22, 2015
San Diego, California
3.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Strong technical leadership in the wireless industry.

Plenty of self-learning resources internally.

401K benefits, paid vacations, paid paternity leave, PPO insurance network.

Good place for new grads to learn and grow their industrial experience.

Cons

The company's foundation is gradually eroded.

Nepotism and favoritism can be seen.

Incompetent people were promoted in the early booming days, and they're stuffed in the middle layer of management everywhere.

Upper management has no solutions to the above issues.

C-level leadership doesn't sufficiently handle the dramatic change of industrial trends as of 2015.

Advice to Management

Kill the useless manager title; let the engineers focus more on engineering challenges.

Title audition to demote high-ranking engineers/old timers without corresponding technical contributions, management skills, and leadership.

One such person can drive 20 competent engineers away.

Cafes suck and need improvement.

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