Super sad work culture and Poor Growth Opportunities - Staff Engineer Qualcomm Employee Review

1.0
Jul 29, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

* Had nice benefits at one point of time

Cons

* Very poor upper management * Promotions to colleagues based on friendships rather than skill set * Lack of technical prowess of upper management * Very less growth opportunities to Senior/Staff levels * No value to engineers opinions

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