Expect the same people, cliques, practices, politics to endure. If you didn't have closure by receiving a green envelope, expect months of political grinding, new market realities, new management shifts, mediocre moving up, innovation stalling. Thanks to all for revealing and educating us on things we would never know about out own work place. Without disregard for the affected people, I feel this was an unnecessary small scale practical move with huge negative psichological effects on all.
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"3s and below let go. Only low performing people."
Who decided they were "low performing" . How objective was that judgement. I have found in my 30 years of service to the tech industry that most managers make mostly subjective judgements on performance. Either they like you or they don't and that predetermined the rating.
I am sure we lost a lot of hard working engineers and those of us left behind Will have to work twice the hours we are now. Ok obviously it's not possible to work 100+ hours per week so schedules will slip and the manager will cover his sorry ass by giving us low productivity ratings. So more good engineers will be axed in next round.
QC is now in the run of the mill tech company ranks with the like of AMD or Marvell.
Only 3s and below under my director. All low performers were axed.
You really hit the nail on the head. Nothing has changed at Qualcomm except the number of employees. The company used to have enough money that it could afford to make huge business mistakes (MediaFlo, Mirasol) and to allow upper management to extend high-paying jobs to their unqualified buddies. Now that the market has matured, the company can no longer absorb these costs. Unfortunately, the culture hasn't changed, and neither have behaviors. Qualcomm is driving itself out of business.
yeah all the employees from all 3 power plants were let go.
What about the WP power team? Heard that a few smart people were let go, including one of the sd dev team leads?
Where's Chairman Mao when we need him, eh?
I agree about Vikram, He is is a very dumb engineer, I guess thats why he moved in role of asking status from engineers...
Hardly believe that MST Ranjan and Vikas still survive
I agree....lot of useless folks who were not contributing anything other than acting as status brokers seems to be survived in WP - Vikram,Wade,Beth,Ravi and Glenn are the dumbest folks I ran in to who wastes engineers bandwidth to manipulate there political game..very pathetic..wondering how come all these low intelligence folks get to this level...Sorry QC you need to get your act together....
Well said.