Qualcomm

The review is with respect to QCT.

• Colleagues are friendly.
• Has reviews twice a year.
• Management is not informed if you are trying to switch internally until you get an offer.
• Better Work/Life Balance.
• Exposure to bring-up.

• Not much challenging work.
• Attitude of finger-pointing to other teams while resolving borderline issues.
• Political in nature. Promotions are given more to favorites rather than on merit. This largely affected the morale of the team I was in and oversaw the departure of great talent, both internally and externally.
• Not enough ownership is handed to engineers.
• Lots of redundant teams doing the same work.

Remove redundancy in teams by providing distinct responsibilities for them.

Foster an engineering culture and value an engineer. It doesn't take more than a couple of sick leaves for a talented engineer to move out!