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Engineer motivation, accountability, and productivity is negatively impacted by PMs . Hard working engineers find it frustrating to write daily status reports for PMs and explain the reports to PMs during long meetings . PMs are often used by... — read more 

I have joined two years ago after college, want to know What’s the % of lay offs? 15%? Or 25% ? ? ?

Technical work of engineers will move to india. Status collection jobs will remain in US.

I'm so pi---d off right now. I did the whole interview process for a position I thought was perfect for me. It took four separate interviews. I was given a salary range at the second one, and even at the low end I'd have been satisfied. I received an... — read more 

I am from China office. Was told 15%-20% cut and candidates list was provided to department head, final impacted people will be notified in Sept and last day will be Oct, but not knowing exact date. Want to ask if the last day is same across... — read more 

Q is cursed. Just like bad relationship(s) the issues do not stop. Some self created and others outside its control. c & svp level accountability Licensing troubles Activist attempts Failed acquisition - nxp Regulatory probe *... — read more 

QC dominated by PE, PM and PdM org , it is insane that these organizations has much lesser cuts than the engineering teams. North America will be only PE, PM and PdM org with christiano leadership. He doesn't know the value of... — read more 

just read the news Q was on of the best unlimited vacation free dinner .....

Lots of hate towards high titles in this forum. But all those high titles in QC don’t mean much. QCOM total compensation came down dramatically over the last decade (when compared to top tech companies). Someone mentioned VPs making $1M/yr. These... — read more 

How are the targeted people determined? Who decides what

apply here https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite?jobFamilyGroup=0c40f6bd1d8f10ae43ffaefd46dc7e78&locationHierarchy1=2fcb99c455831013ea52fb338f2932d8 status collectors will not be considered

Are qcom executives looking at NVDA and realizing anything?

Any Percentage update for TCE?

Q won't go anywhere, but will shrink drastically. One by one, closing satellite locations, closing buildings, shutting down all its BS so-called research depts. They'll learn the hard way that "adjacent markets" are for pros with long term... — read more 

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4974456

They are working on the same field for many years, their skills are limited, not diversified, they are more like technicians. Hard to find another job. Even if they find a job, hard to survive over there.

Huawei Is Building a Secret Network for Chips, Trade Group Warns

If Qcom wants to stay in business, it need to be the first to come out with a 6G chip or even a combo 4G/5G/6G chip for both phones and base stations.

A couple of days ago a Qualcomm old timer, VP of marketing, posted a farewell message on LinkedIn. I wonder if he is one of the first ones to be notified. Kind of makes sense since his last day will be in late October right after RSU vesting. Anyone... — read more 

Qcom is almost done, it is end of it life cycle.

Will Q be another Nokia or Lucent, Nortel that will go bankrupt and fail overnight?

You will look back and you will be happy you got a package. Your colleagues after you will not have that option. Another Nokia in the works

We don't know anything yet. None of us do. If you keep stressing over this nonstop you won't have any strength left for when things do start happening. Try to focus on something else until more information is available. Just fixating on this right... — read more 

Start looking, doesn’t matter even if you have all 5s in your whole Q career.

are recent new grad hires rolling over from an internship going to be affected with the layoff? We have no performance reviews or anything since we just started … and we don’t make much compared to other roles.. what’s the criteria for the layoff? Is... — read more 

What do you think will happen? Who will be affected and how? What kind of selection criteria will be used? Whcih groups will be affected the most? Which levels will be affected the most? What's the business logic behind the whole thing... Oh... — read more 

Last time, they said they were cutting the low performers (1's and 2 ratings). Assuming that all that remain now are people who are performing at satisfactory level and above (3+ ratings)... What criteria are they gonna use for cutting now? ... — read more 

You hear noise from BA, DM, CA ....

With sales in China plummeting, how many Chinese employees will be laid off this time? The Chinese market is still the market for over 60% of Qualcomm's revenue to date. I know there is a big R&D team in the China office, maybe over 2000 engineers?... — read more