Qualcomm reviews

- As mentioned earlier, documentation at Qcom sucks, you need to approach right people with right leverage and be very persistent, orelse you can't get things done on time. - Qcom internal tools suck. - If you have counterparts at different geo locations, work life could be difficult sometimes. While it's advantageous to have team spread out across multiple locations, it's very important have proper etiquette here. - Annual review process sucks, I hate matrix organizations, there a line manager whom you don't work with but, he/she is responsible for AR and there is a functional manager whom you work with on daily basis. This structure is stupid, primarily used for shifting blames.

When I started at Qualcomm, they were on the Forbes Top 100 Companies to work for list. They haven't been back since, and it's clear why: they stopped treating their employees as a valuable asset, and instead seem to be treating them as expendable assets. I've watched almost half my team go to other companies, but no one in management seems to be panicking like they should be. Qualcomm seems to have no common processes, nor the flexibility to let small groups decide their own processes. "Agile" and "Scrum" are words that are used without any of the actual benefits of those processes. The inefficiency in my group alone is staggering, and proposing improvements gets opposition from the 10+ year veterans who think they're still working at a scrappy startup company. Which leads to the other thing: Qualcomm is an enormous company with tons of revenue, but there are still, for some reason, pockets of the company (or maybe it's universal, for all I know) that act like it's a startup where everyone needs to put in ridiculous hours all the time. If Qualcomm can't meet their deadlines with people working normal hours, then that's a management issue, not employees not working hard enough. There are times when long hours over a short, pre-determined period can result in huge efficiency gains, and that can be worth it. But when it's considered a negative on your performance review that you're unavailable on weekends, while the rest of your work is stellar... well, it makes sense that people (those who could) would try to find a more sane work environment.