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Great job on your first eight years in your Electrical Engineering career

Senior Staff Engineer/Manager
Former Employee
Worked at Qualcomm for less than 1 year
June 14, 2008
San Diego, California
4.0
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Pros

Great place to learn. Great place to work with the best and brightest technical people. Very stable and successful company. Great benefits.

Cons

Most of the management consists of former engineers who are not necessarily good managers. The performance review and coaching system is weak. Project management is weak. It's an extremely big place. There's a lot of fat in the organization. Most senior places are taken by long-timers, hence there are small opportunities for long-term career growth. Sometimes, work-life balance is neglected.

Advice to Management

Do better project planning and management.

Only choose competent people as managers, directors, and VPs. (i.e., do not promote people into these positions just because they are good engineers.)

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