Why did Qualcomm hire so many engineers without harder scrutiny and questioning the managers if they really need it, who were in the race of increasing their empire without thinking about the company? Why was there in first place motivation for these managers to hire more people...just so that they climb up the organization ladder faster? Was there no way of making (motivating) them think about the company before thinking about themselves? Now we have 4 engineers to 1 engineer doing same job in competitor company. And now we complain about margins?
Why didn't Qualcomm have a policy of 1% layoffs every year? Every successful organization including Intel, MSFT, AMZN and others have the policy to shed the 1% employees every year as a annual process. This wouldnt have gotten us to this stage where we have so many people just sitting up on their a**es and doing nothing!
Why doesn't Qualcomm start layoffs from top to bottom? Usually in these cuts the ones to lose their jobs are junior engineers. They hardly contribute to the Op-ex. Start from the execs. Did anyone in management even think of counting how many directors, Sr. directors and VPs Qualcomm has? A VP in Qualcomm translates to less than director in Google...What does it say about our hierarchy? Shed the people from the top of the org chart first!
Why are most of our top management from inside of the company and not hired from externally? The only way to stop spreading the internal infection now is to get an external medication. This about how fresh ideas and new perspectives coming from outside of the organization will make these directors/sr. directors/VPs re-think their strategies!
I hope someone in HR/top management/board member sees this. We cant have same policies if we need to compete with ruthless asian companies who care less for quality and more for price.