Poor leadership, poor outlook - Senior Engineer Qualcomm Employee Review

2.0
May 25, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Engineering teams can be filled with great and friendly people. Like at most jobs, your experience will depend on your team. For the most part, there's a good work/life balance. Working 9-5 and sometimes 9-6 is typical.

Cons

* Major layoffs in 2015 and again in 2018. I survived both but it makes you question the leadership. * Stock price is less now than when I started 3 years ago and the outlook is not great. This is at a time when the stock market, and tech stocks specifically, are soaring. Negotiate your sign-on bonus in cash so it doesn't lose value before vesting. * There is no company culture. Leadership doesn't instill any values or motivation. The CEO only ever says "we are going to be the leaders in 5G".

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