If you show up on time for work and meetings. Are an above average coder. Work well with the team. Contribute. Keep your head down and don't make a lot of demands and waves. Prove you have some worth. You probably will be OK. And as for those VP's living on long past accomplishments, with few or no reports, and really don't contribute; those days are over. Probably gone by the end of the year.
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Did exactly that in another company. Thought since I was so multipurpose, well known, and respected, I'd survive. Nope.
Tell management they're F'd up right now as you won't have a chance later. Go to your manager and their manager up the food chain with your ideas.
You won't get another chance and the worst that could happen is that you'll be on the first list. New managers hired from now on will be liars. Don't trust them.
OP, you haven't been here long, have you?
Nearly everyone will be gone soon. What can Qualcomm offer a top performer that they can't get more of somewhere else?
The drawn out process is designed to push people out the door, as I'd the reduction in employee incentives to pay for Executive's stock grants. It's 100% clear that the executive plan is to milk the company till the milk runs dry, then put a bullet in it. There is no keeping your head down, you are going to be either cut our sold and both are demoralizing. At least being cut, or preferably leaving for a better job, you aren't abused for as long a period.
They just want number of people cut....so that plan won't work