Qualcomm

Still has a good name in the industry. Good if you want to go for further education.

Good benefits: gym and insurance.

Pay is a bit less but okay, especially if you are in the ECE domain. Not for CSE guys.

Hyderabad has mostly grunt, mindless work. It makes the company look like a glorified services company. Very few teams have work which is good for your career enhancement, and being put in that team depends mostly on luck.

Freshers from the best Indian colleges are put in random projects. People who were good at programming in college are put in teams where minimal technical challenges exist.

Team-specific training is almost non-existent. There's a lack of proper documentation about processes. Seniors are happy to just complete their work and don't care about freshers. Either you will be given a ridiculous amount of work with no training, or you will be given no work at all many days as seniors are busy handling everything themselves and don't care about freshers' gradual learning and growth.

Most freshers stay only for 1-2 years because of this messed-up work culture. If you are talented and hungry for challenging problems (regardless of HW/SW domain), this is not the place for you. You can search on LinkedIn for how long freshers stay here.

Middle managers are mostly incompetent. There's a zero feedback mechanism for freshers. Any feedback given is just thrown away and not acted upon.

You should be very lucky to have a good team or good mentors here.

Don't give the Kool-Aid to freshers. Hyderabad is already seeing high attrition at the fresher level, and the company has become senior-level heavy, like an inverse pyramid. Take effort in asking teams to prepare a proper integration plan for freshers and constantly take feedback from them. If you think that is a waste of time, as freshers leave after a few years anyway, then there's no point in hiring them. It's better to hire consultants and roll them over to permanent employees. Freshers have the highest mobility in the job market, and either you create a good environment for them or just don't hire them. There is no road in between.

Now that many projects are being shifted to QIPL, these actions are of utmost importance if you want to retain talent. All the HR drama, talks, and PPTs mean nothing when the groundwork in most teams has not been done properly. Those who will drink the Kool-Aid are not who are best for Qcom.