Treasury BLUE Justice WHITE Defense WHITE CFIUS, which can ad­vise the pres­i­dent to block takeovers by foreign com­pa­nies on na­tional se­cu­rity grounds, is chaired by the Trea­sury De­part­ment and in­cludes mem­bers from other agencies... — read more 

We fell first - Qualcomm pays $975 million to resolve China antitrust dispute. Nobody cared. Now all see that Chinese business acts increasingly as an arm of the state, China is challenging America across Asia as the dominant power - last weekend Xi... — read more 

The lists are ready 20 % cut from serious source good luck everybody

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/01/broadcom-ceo-hock-tan-aggressive-negotiations-with-amazon-hpe-others.html Tactics used by Broadcom include ripping up existing contracts and demanding higher prices for chips while threatening to cut off supply if... — read more 

Got some not so positive feedback from a faang recruiter friend. Lots of negativity coming from q applicants. If you want to move on then you need to be positivity not negativity. Remember you are hired not only for skill but demeanor and personality... — read more 

https://www.google.com/amp/www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-fi-qcom-neighborhood-20180301-story,amp.html " at least a dozen Qualcomm executives lease storage lockers for their fine wines in the WineSellar’s three-story vault... — read more 

Just wondering. I'm so tired of all of this, leaving with a nice severance check would come as a relief.

So, now that people are openly expressing national security concerns related to Broadcom takeover attempts and calling for reviews, anybody else thinks this could be a final nail in that coffin?... — read more 

Anyone knows what happened? Why he left?

Simple facts: If you work in a division making no money, work on pie in the sky projects, tough luck, you need to start looking - BRCM or no BRCM. Probably takeover should be least of your concern right now. For those in mobile CPU division, and work... — read more 

Qualcomm Canada Inc will be completely shut down. Good riddance

Now that I am getting some real info, let me say that 90% or MORE of the info on here is completely made up. I think you will see some real info coming after the ASM....maybe not from me though. If you are an employee just check with your boss or... — read more 

If you don't own a high visibility project with a direct impact to top or bottom line then you have no place in the company going forward. You have to be directly responsible for the outcome. It's high time the status collecting directors get... — read more 

Just curious to what people are voting.

BCOM layoffs will be approximately 30%, and that's if. Even if that's the case will be a 2 year process and not an overnight action. I can see a new culture, new projects, but not a massive layoff. 2 years is plenty of time for people to figure out... — read more 

Any insights ? or it on Monday ?

Any idea if this is coming to product management also ? How are they evaluated ?

Keep it simple HW or SW engineer (may have reports) Manager (20+) Director - 200+ VP - 1000+ SVP - 5000+ EVP - 10,000+

Do we know if PM team will get impacted in this massive layoffs ??

Here lies a major flaw in Qualcomm as an organization: we are so enamored with an engineer’s technical abilities that we conflate the ability to execute with the ability to lead. We keep promoting folks to management roles who can get a task done... — read more 

There seems to be serious unhappiness with the middle management. What is the performance criteria for directors at Qualcomm ?

Can anybody confirm that severance is being lowered for non-management? Is that even legal, if true?

Contrary to earlier estimates of 4000 plus layoffs, only 1000 to 1200 layoffs are expected. Mainly in Director and executive roles. Most of the cost savings will be realized thru stopping loss making projects, spending lesser in r&d, sales and... — read more 

Whatever will be will be!

We are so enamored with an engineer’s technical abilities that we conflate the ability to execute with the ability to lead. We keep promoting folks to management roles who can get a task done, but who are also woefully inadequate in terms of vision... — read more 

I had the pleasure of working with SM in Globalstar, he was an excellent RF engineer.

Upper management already knows how it's going down - they're asking employees that will be laid off to complete important tasks and transferring knowledge in "strategic" (i.e. secret) ways. All the details regarding how to lay off individuals, etc... — read more 

All the wonderful things you do for us and the low life's come here and Veitch. Let them eat cup cakes.

I see that people are getting upset about all ‘whining’ on this board and I totally get it. At the same time I know so many people who made their bets on QC and spent a good chunk of their career here. In such a case, an individual is betting on the... — read more 

There is an "ACTIVE" button right above the first thread - you can use it to see what posts had recent replies.

This layoff thing is becoming annoying. Do you think that layoffs didn't happen all these years until now. People are let go every month. The only reason you don't know about it is because there isn't a significant amount and it doesn't imply massive... — read more 

Qualcomm may be able to get a higher price from another suitor. Apple has plenty of money. Qualcomm would provide Apple some diversification in products and services as well become an in-house provider of high-quality chips.

#REVOLUTIONARY #INNOVATION #SCIENCEisCOOL #finantialengineeringsucks

qcom is trying to let brcm to buy only non-snapdragon assets.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/us-national-security-panel-that-reviews-mergers-is-looking-at-broadcoms-plan-to-take-over-rival-qualcomm.html

Pay him $200 million a year to drive the Q train

I assume all the institutions will be making clear their voting intentions by the weekend. Will it be worth attending in person on 6th ? I assume BoD will know vote outcome ahead of time; but perhaps last moment drama ?