As a former QC employee that has been out of the rat race for years I'll just add this to the conversation. Qualcomm is a company that was started by 7 people in a garage that had a brilliant idea. A brilliant idea that flew in the face of the big boys like Motorola and Nortel and Ericsson. Companies that were huge behemoths that took forever to react to innovation. And because of that those 7 garage dwellers ate their fing lunch. Well now the tables have turned and the bloated behemoth that is waddling through the buffet line is Qualcomm. It takes to much effort to drop a new brilliant dish into the steamer tray. So they keep serving up the same tired dishes that you see at every buffet. And now the board will transition to the fat fs that are only concerned with stuffing as much crab rangoon as possible into their bellies before the buffet goes out of business. So for those of you getting your pink slips I encourage you to go to your garage, find the other pink slippers that have the skills that you lack and invite them to your garage. Once you have seven or more of you with complementary skills fire up the grill, get some butter, cheese and bread, throw it in the pan and start eating Qualcomms f***ing lunch!
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Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi, Harvey White, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, and Franklin Antonio.
CDMA was used in 1957, when Leonid Kupriyanovich in Moscow, made an experimental model of a wearable automatic mobile phone, called LK-1 by him, with a base station. LK-1 has a weight of 3 kg, 20–30 km operating distance, and 20–30 hours of battery life...
You know it was 5 not 7.... It was a condo not a garage.... Hey that CDMA stuff came months later as a happy accident.... You engineers crack me the f up. Stop just for one god damned moment trying to show everyone how brilliant you are with your knowledge of facts and consider the original point of the post. That being that you can take the knowledge you have and use it to stop being the dog on the end of the leash. Are you sick of the way the Q is treating its employees? Good, let that motivate you to start something brilliant and treat your employees better. Roll the fing dice amigos, be in charge of your own destiny. Yes, it might fail and you might be out of work in 6 months, better stay where your at since it much more secure. Oh and while you're waiting for your GTFO package who can tell me how many of the original founders were cat people instead of dog people? I'm just so impressed by you factual knowledge!
OP, I totally agree, And I think soon to be Ex-QCOM employees will eventually give Qcom run for it's money and burry it in to history,Its kind of already started happening and I expect things to drastically accelerate in next 2-3 years....
Minor point but the company wasn't started in a garage. It was started in a condo owned by one of the original 5 people.
i thought the first project in the garage after linkabit was government contract for satellite communications. First silicon was a viterbi decoder. CDMA for mobile was a happy accident later on.
I'm not so into fancy food, but I do love a juicy cheeseburger every now and then.
Very inspiring indeed...Nowadays, Qualcomm won't try to eat anybody else's lunch unless if they know in advance that they'll be able to eat it.