Qualcomm reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(11,000 total reviews)
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Cristiano Amon

69% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Qualcomm has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 11,000 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Qualcomm employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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11K reviews
3.0
Oct 6, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Dynamic work environment, industry leader, job security, good healthcare benefits,

Cons

Qualcomm has become a large company - Visibility rather than actual contribution determines career advancement here thesedays. Pay is average, career advancement is very slow in some divisions/groups, very long hours at work.

2.0
Sep 28, 2013

Limited Career Growth

Recommend
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Pros

- Learn a lot initially - San Diego is a great place to live

Cons

- Limited career growth - if you request a different project after completing your current assignment, you are discouraged and given boring tasks - Expected to work on one project and only project for entire duration at Qualcomm - Lots of politics - people take credit for work you do, ask for help behind directors/VPs - Line management - your review, bonus and raise are determined by a third party whom you see only during review period. Your manager/tech lead has very little impact during the bonus/promotion meetings. - Compensation is very low compared to salary in Bay Area. San Diego is not that much cheaper to live - New innovation in hardware only. As a software engineer you will only be responsible for bug fixes and hacks the hardware and system team will reincorporate into the next design] - No culture. No team building events, no company events. Teams are very distant, everyone is doing their own thing. Team members don't even eat lunch together most of the time! In the 3 years I have been here, my team has only had 1 team building event and there have only been 2 company events, 1 for a 25 year anniversary

4.0
Sep 1, 2013

Not bad

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Large company, good compensation,San diego is a good city with nice weather to live. Living cost here, especially house price might not be higher as bay area

Cons

work life balance might not be good. Neet to work overtime frequently. If you are consider the work life balance. Qualcomm might not be a good choice for you.

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