Qualcomm

Still the leader in wireless. Lightyears ahead of other mobile chip makers.

Qualcomm has had lots of burnout in the past couple of years. During my exit interview, the HR person mentioned they are seeing a gradual increase in employees leaving due to burnout.

I'm still in contact with my old co-workers there, and it's the same story: long hours, constant pressure to meet aggressive schedules.

If you are hell-bent on working at Qualcomm, avoid the QCT division. They work their engineers like dogs there.

I was part of the modem group when I left, and they had the most aggressive working hours.

While I still worked there, a QCT engineer committed suicide in 2010, which made big news. However, there was another recent QCT suicide in June of 2012 that was hush-hush, possibly due to the timing of a big PR announcement. This is what my sources who still work there tell me. Very sad.

Stick to wireless and stop making stupid moves into broadcasting like MediaFLO.