CorpIT laidoff 20 people today. CorpIT has.been laying off small numbers of people around every review period for years now. CorpIT has to be one of the worst dept to work...
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Is it plugged in?
Did you try turning it off and back on again?
Walk into any lab and it's all T badges, half of them pink.
It's the future of Qualcomm as the IP portfolio is thinned out by flat LTE networks and modems grow into more and more a commodity like WiFi modems.
The glory days are over.
worked in IT a few years a go and was part of the 2 yr IT layoff was told by an IT source they used benefits as a gauge on picking. this time i heard they are pushing for positions that they can hire manpower to fill on a as need basis more than the announced may be coming
Fire ER department VP like Jane Mack Baker.
There are tons of positions that don't contribute to the bottom line (but are still important). one glaring exception is HR.
The thing with in-house IT is that it doesn't really contribute to the bottomline of Qualcomm's profits. You are't producing anything that is sold to customer. So of course the powers of be will always try to find a way to squeeze down cost, because for them, IT is an expense/liability. It doesn't generate income.
In-house IT just sucks. It sucks from a personal job satisfaction and it sucks from a compensation perspective. IF you're in San Diego, go work for a consulting firm like Booz Allen or something similar. At least you would be compensated for it.
Or work for a software company that has a data center. For example, Amazon, Google, Intuit, etc.
Because I know more about my computer than most of IT.
What kind of packages do people typically get for these sneaky onesey twosey type layoffs?
Replacing IT with outside contractors is a rather short-sighted move for a company whose primary source of income is intellectual property.
where most of the layoffs foreign or domestic? did most of these occur in San Diego?
What companies are hiring IT people in San Diego?