To the potential employers or whoever comes across resumes from QCOM engineers applying to positions with your companies, please do not hire these guys or find reasons to disqualify them during the interviewing process. All of them have enough "f*ck you" money resulted from years of being employed by QCOM. They're very well financially. Please hire other laidoff engineers from other companies, those guys deserve more. You do not want a bunch of low-skilled QCOM engineers with faulty and delusional attitudes to be your teammates. Please consider other non-QCOM engineers. Sincerely!
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the overall spirit of this post is mean and unecessary
I think whether true or false there will be a lot of stigma outside QC that the employees laid off were the ones not carrying their weight. It will be tough convincing new prospective employers you are not lazy and/or a problem employee.
@152769: The opposite is true of people with f*ck you money. Old QCOM’ers may not need the money to survive, but unless they have the CEO package, they need to keep up with expense like medical, social security contribution, and other benefits that add up to tens of thousands. Those things plus normal living expense and kids’ tuition will burn through savings pretty quickly. So, old QCOM’ers may have the experience, they are probably the worse bet for drive and motivation. Engineering problems are solved by those who are motivated not those who think they know the solution. If you hire an old QCOM’er, you are probably going to get someone who shows up to work to drink free coffee and soda, surf the net, and call it a day, someone who clocks in and clocks out.
People hired by QCOM before 2009 were actually very qualified. More to the point, they tend to have deep knowledge about systems and better mathematics backgrounds than many recent graduates--even at the MS and PhD level. And most of us are used to working hard--mainly because there was no sense of "entitlement" to top salaries, and "fun" workplaces when we started in Silicon Valley. (One lab I worked in for the R & D had bare yellow walls and the only furniture was 3 tables: one for mmachine parts for the new release, one for paperwork, and another for candy wrappers and soda cans.) While a lot of them may have received a lot of stock and options over the years, it's never quite as good as actual money--and if you had a math/econ background you'd realize that. And while many of us don't have mortgages, we do have kids with tuition that needs to be paid, elderly parents to support, medical bills, or any of a dozen other items that seem to get more expensive as we age.
Anonymous152772, you don't even know which one is your mother. But, it sucks to be you doesn't it. No money, no honey...no home.... Too darn bad... It still sucks to be you..
People with fvck you money are the perfect people to hire? Why? It's simple..You know they don't have to work. They want to work be they like to. As opposed to someone that only just wants "a job" because they need a job to afford the rent or their expensive leased car. So, actually, when I hire, I look for those people that are successful who want to work. because chances are, they were successful for a reason in the past, and they will be successful moving forward. Plus when it comes to salary negotiations, someone with fvck you money is much more amenable to a more reasonable compensation package versus someone that is only looking for a job because they want the highest paid salary the can find, irrespective of how shitty the job might be.