Qualcomm

Great pay, bonus, stocks, insurance, and learning opportunities. Great engineers to work with. In the past, had the startup aggression. Flexible working hours. Occasional 2-3 months of great work in a year. The kind of schedule and culture Qualcomm has needs techie people with deep knowledge on their system, partly because of a lack of documentation. Excellent R&D in San Diego. Great place for self-motivated people. Giving a good rating to this company because the pay is good. Otherwise, it would be a 2-star company.

• Unresponsive HR.
• The India office is not an R&D as such; it is just a backend office of San Diego. Discarded and repetitive tasks are moved to India. The quality of work in India is bad. Mostly, it is commercialization support.
• Top-heavy management has become too distant from tech and lost touch with reality.
• Most Indian managers have given up on aggression and act as puppets of their San Diego counterparts.
• Both HR and management have a great open-door policy for management and tech improvements, but nothing will ever come out of it.
• The India office gives only lip service to innovation. There is an annual frenzy for one or two months, but there is no real planning or long-term engagement to foster innovation.
• Too much posturing in the India office. The reality is, it's just another Indian service company with better pay.
• No true leadership or growth planning; another management gimmick.

• To India office

Get the gumption to accept the feedback given year after year from employees and share the information with everyone. Stop posturing and management gimmicks and try to understand the essence of it.

Improve the image of the India office as an R&D center.