Worst company if you want to learn and keep growing your skills - Anonymous employee Qualcomm Employee Review

1.0
6 Oct 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Actually present environment has changed much. Now Qualcomm is also like other medium paying companies. Pros - 1. you can file your ideas in portal and if it's unique company will apply for a patent grant and you will get some benefit as well. 2. 110 rs. daily free food 3. Adequate medical insurance 4. Team outings

Cons

1. Bureaucracy and politics 2. Management is so crude and no matter how talented you are and how much you work. They will promote you only after completing 3 years and more. 3. Yearly review cycle and that's also not sure how much hike you will get as it depends on overall earnings which are shrinking year by year in competitive mobile chipset market. 4. Huge work load. you take one week leave and management thinks you were not working from last 6 months. 5. Learning areas are very shrink and regular work load is more. which will make you tire and unfit to outside world job market. 6. Most of the teams has no coding work, So you will forget all the programming knowledge and while looking for new job, you will have to study all your programming basics again. 7. Telugu speaking people are benefited specially in Hyderabad location

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Great benefits, the pay is like okay. Some cool reimbursement programs and health centers on campus

Cons

Career progression and culture varies extremely depending on department. Some parts almost set you up for failure and it's difficult to gain new skills. Lots of qualcomm teams are too scared to explore new technologies and migrate to state of the art services and are comfortable in sticking with old technology for familiarity. Also, HR does nothing if a coworker makes you uncomfortable.

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