Qualcomm

Free breakfast and lunch (though food quality is horrible most of the time).

Most of the technical leaders are extremely skilled and talented.

Some of the software teams have very good work-life balance.

There is no micromanagement at many levels in software teams.

Payscale is competitive compared to the market.

A good amount of shares are given to employees based on performance.

Really like the company's vision in bringing cutting-edge innovations to the market.

The IT Department is very good. They always try to resolve any software and hardware issues at the earliest, a much-needed thing in any large company.

Great scope to turn ideas into inventions. Management and tech leads are very supportive of filing these ideas.

Human resources and facilities departments are quite disappointing. They function just like government departments.

Milestone Recognition awards are disappointing in terms of reward amounts (e.g., 5, 10, or 20-year anniversary awards).

Lately, some employee-friendly policies have been removed (e.g., the car lease policy). The snack top-up policy was updated and is now weird; the top-up lapses every Friday if not used. Previously, it was quarterly.

It's been ages since the company made it into the "Best Companies to Work For India" list due to some of the above cons.

Management should reward employees who make outstanding contributions.

They should introduce more employee-friendly policies on par with other top companies.