Who wins? Or are they equally worthless? ... who's truly a VP?
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All Q VPs are equally worthless. You always believe they get where they are from hard work, natural talent, good lucky, whatever, but its who they end up being friends with. At Q Cronyism is the worst I've ever seen. People hired and put in management roles simply because they have the same religion, ethnic background, went to same college, whatever. Ability isn't even on the list of at least 90% of the VP and Director title holders. The title is less of a joke at other places like Intel and Broadcom, but even then similar rules apply. I have been impressed by VPs there, but absolutely none at Q, in fact anyone at Director or above has been awful. Read this board, the employees all know these guys are clowns and jokers.
It comes down to a few simple questions: (1) Which one knows more about the industry? (2) Which one knows more about your company's technology? (3) Which one has a better record of maintaining contact and/or open lines of communication with their management AND their other employees? Everything else is pretty much gravy--including the fancy degrees and their perceived reputation in the industry. I've seen (--supposedly) hot shot Presidents and VPs from other industries almost kill tech companies--e.g. Apple, years ago; as well as insiders with M.B.A.s from prestigious universities literally gut companies of key engineering staff to boost share price before leaving the corporate shell behind to limp along until death or acquisition--e.g. Sun Microsystems--and most likely Qualcomm.