Qualcomm reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(10,995 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 10,995 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
4.0
Oct 11, 2011

Surrounded by smart people

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Always learning from people around you; management makes (mostly) smart decisions; can get a lot done in a short period of time.

Cons

tough to stand out from the crowd; stock has been stuck at 50 for years; pay is below industry standard; CDMA Technologies is the "slave pit" of QC.

4.0
Oct 7, 2011

Lots of opportunities

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good benefits and facilities Many opportunities Focus on the employee compared to other companies Technical competency is rewarded (although less so than in the past)

Cons

Becoming a big company Must have personal networking skills Spread out campus..difficult to see some groups Not sure if innovation leader (compared to Google)

1.0
Oct 6, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

There are alot of smart, hardworking people at Qualcomm, and comraderie and support among coworkers. The pay and the benefits are great.

Cons

The company is very heavy with mid-level managers, many who have been there for years and promoted well beyond their skill level. To compensate, the company hires more skilled employees in below them, making the mid-level managers, who these people ultimately report to, feel threatened. Since they are not about to leave--they could never retain their title level and pay elsewhere--there is no place for the newer, more skilled employees to move up. Managers have absolute control, can get away with horrendous verbal abuse, as can any employee who comes under "special protection" of a manager. Human Reousrces is horrible--they will back up an out of control manager and destroy anyone who complains in order to protect the company from lawsuits. There is constant reorganization to hide problem managers, but the individual problems never get addressed, and continue to recur. Anyone who speaks up about it is punished.

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