QCT: sweat shop... - Senior Design Engineer Qualcomm Employee Review

2.0
Sep 9, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

San Diego, San Diego, San Diego, San Diego, San Diego, San Diego, San Diego, San Diego, San Diego, San Diego.....

Cons

* layers of hierarchy. * for worker-bee engineers in IC-design, it's very much like a sweatshop.. * a lot of politics in performance review & promotion process. * smartphone chip business is well past its prime-time

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