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      Qualcomm

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      3.8

      73% would recommend to a friend

      (10,988 total reviews)
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      Cristiano Amon

      69% approve of CEO

      64% positive business outlook

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      Qualcomm has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 10,988 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
      2.0
      Jun 12, 2012

      99% politics, 1% actual engineering

      Staff engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - medical benefits. - many onsite technology lectures.

      Cons

      - lower than average compensation in terms of salary and stocks. - too much emphasis on political gains by directors/managers rather than emphasizing on actual engineering work. - nobody is willing to make critical decisions when it comes to risk management and setting priorities. - no specific promotion guideline, it's mostly dependent on personal relationships with upper management rather than actual contributions. - competent engineers keep leaving after getting fed up with too much politics.

      3.0
      Jun 2, 2012

      Still a Great Company, But Not What it Used to Be

      Director of product management
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      *Excellent Health Benefits (could be changing soon) *Decent Comp. Plans *Above-board, open-door corporate culture *Talented co-workers and managers *Tons of educational and knowledge expansion opportunities

      Cons

      *Nobody at the top layer leaves, so VERY limited upward mobility *Office politics are worse than most *Company getting increasingly stingy with options, RSUs, etc. *Innovation and pushing the envelope not encouraged. Don't rock the boat *Very "inside-out" development mentality which is typical of Engineering-focused companies ("I just built this cool widget, now let's figure out who wants to buy it.")

      2.0
      May 10, 2012

      pigeonhole

      Asic design engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Very good medical and dental plan. San Diego is a good place to work.

      Cons

      1) Managers are technically inept. Especially, there are so many directors and senior directors that you forget count of them. 2)There is a lot of stress on minute issues or the same issue coming up in a different ways. 3) Promotions are based on number of hours put in. No respect for quality of work but stress on quantity of work. This goes back to the point mentioned above. Since mangers are technically not smart, they don't have clue about time taken for a task. 4)No freedom/room to work outside of your assignment. Very poor in terms of inernal group transfers.

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