how motivated r u? have faith in leadership to bring back glory days?
Q-Dalit
QUALCOMM should be renamed as subject. If you don't know what it means, look it up.
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Another H1B lawsuit
www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2018/05/14/controversial-uscis-memo-draws-major-h-1b-lawsuit/amp/
Seems the NXP deal will be happening after all
So, now that Chinese regulators have "found" Qualcomm's application for NXP acquisition again and are considering it, it's probably just a mater of time before the deal is finally closed. Whether this is going to turn out to be a good thing for us in... — read more
Will QDT retain some employees to continue support the HuaXinTong?
QC has invest HuaXinTong , which working on ARM server chip in China
what's the future of QCA?
kind of worried
$retention
Any 'key' folks in your team paid $rentention ? Lots of tribe knowledge would be lost if some key folks all started leaving. So little knowledge is documented it would be really tough. At current stock performance RSUs/options have only weak... — read more
Cost reduction details
SM, show some courage if you want to redeem yourself. Don't hide behind GD and CA. Here's a blueprint for 40% operating margin 1.Move all Operations to Asia - Ops head should be based in China. Move all Engineering to India - Engineering leadership... — read more
Europe?
any layoffs/shut downs in Q Europe?
QCOM Austin office
Lots of talk of the bay area and raleigh offices. How about the Austin office? Any indication of shutting it down?
NXP will close. China will approve it
Trump just tweeted he instructed dept of commerce to bring ZTE back into business
Bay Area vs Austin work environments
We spend 33% of day at work and work environment is important. Which place is better? My first choice company made an offer in Bay Area. 2nd and 3rd choice companies gave me offers in Austin. I always lived in San Diego and happy to relocate to... — read more
Intel Raleigh hiring event - Questions to ask
Tell me about Intel's yearly stacked rankings process... What is your honest opinion on it... It has the reputation of being brutal What does it mean to receive a Stock Level 4 during the above process I understand the current Cary site is over... — read more
QDT
Why QDT chief resigned
Thinking about joining Apple
For those of you that made the QCOM -> Apple jump. What's it like? Are there mandatory hours? I have 4 weeks of vacation right now.. do I lose that and only get 2 weeks (i.e., can you negotiate for and get more vacation days)? How about work/career?... — read more
Any other Qcommers working this weekend!?
Yay lucky us!!
Trump does not care abt Q layoffs
because Q labor is mostly not American and California is a historically blue state that will never vote for him anyways
If you want to stay in San Diego and join a winning team
Blue team are hiring
What are other efficient cost cutting means?
I know everybody rightfully hates layoffs but what other way is there for Qualcomm to cut costs efficiently to reach the announced one billion cut in annual costs? It's the only way that unfortunately makes sense for a company that's trying to ensure... — read more
Brutal honesty at QCA all hands
They considered closing down San Jose and moving everything off shore...Honest but demotivating speech..
So....PERM is frozen?
From what I heard Q froze the PERM process for green card b/c of the layoff? I got H1B just now. Not sure if I should start visiting leetcode.com right now.
CA’s AHM
Please explain the slide where he said “no photos” and it was some color coded thing. Those of us watching the livestream were not shown this
Rumor - Paul's working with Sanjay now.
Going to take this tank public before it's too late.
The Goose is Cooked!
Get out now while the job market and economy is still good! Economies and job markets run in cycles and a downturn and recession is coming in the next year. You need to protect your future, your family and your retirement. Don't wait. One year from... — read more
NXP saga continues
I guess they are really playing hard to get... Still no end in sight for the whole ordeal... "Qualcomm extends cash tender offer for NXP shares to 5.00 p.m. May 25"... — read more
RFFE
How is thisbusiness doing? Is it on way to becoming as big as we were made to believe or another flop?
CFO can only see one year
Only focused on the stock price based on eps forecasts and buybacks. I think that is all he knows. Can't be strategic with such a short term cost cutting mindset. And the BOD is fooled by him, or are they being made fools by him?
Qs big issues ?
Too many but amongst the top is employee morale and toxic work environments.
How is modem software lay off specifically
Being the core product, not sure if how big the layoff impact had on the modem software sector.
After health insurance coverage from Qualcomm, can I Opt for no insurance
After layoff, qualcomm paying health insurance till end of June. After that I was told that I have these options (1) COBRA: Continue with same coverage but premium from your pocked (could bin e very expansive) (2) Shop for insurance in... — read more
Somebody asked what it was like for those over 50 who are laid off...
Good if depressing read for those who are interested in seeing what the job market is like for those over fifty-five. Why 55-Plus Workers Have So Many Bad Jobs... — read more
the stock buyback is working
i really wish people would stop whining about qualcomm's buyback plan since it's obviously working. very nice bump of 2 percent is exactly what we needed. this is a corporation, stop expecting it to act as something it's not!... — read more
Qualcomm has a bigger issue at hand.
Most active board for sure....Posts by current employees, ex-employees, competitors and general observers. My overall observation is the company clearly has last its competitive edge with the real issue being a completely demoralized, pessimistic... — read more
This is dispicable
Thousands of good people were laid of in the past few months under the guise of cost cutting because it was supposedly necessary and now we learn that the company is using $10 billion to buy back its own stock?!?!?! Talk about making your employees... — read more
NXP deal CANCELED
Qualcomm buying back 10 billion dollars in shares instead. Confirmes, google it.
Next big lay off on August 22
Tentatively planning
Qualcomm is making strides as a leading financial innovation company
Unveiling new ways to cook books than unveiling new technologies. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/qualcomm-unveils-10-billion-stock-210604096.html Reporting ordinary dividends as 'return of capital' was genius ;-)