Thread regarding Qualcomm Inc. layoffs

This forum is obsessed with Google. Here is the reality.

The worst part of working at Google, for many people, is that they're overqualified for their job. Google has a very high hiring bar due to the strength of the brand name, the pay & perks, and the very positive work culture. As a result, they have their pick of bright candidates, even for the most low-level roles.

There are students from top 10 colleges who are providing tech support for Google's ads products, or manually taking down flagged content from YouTube, or writing basic code to A|B test the color of a button on a site.

Some of the downsides of so many overqualified people:

It's hard to get promoted quickly, since the person above you as well as at your level both have great educations and strong work ethics. When it's standard to be awesome, and the work isn't particularly tough to begin with, it's hard to differentiate.

The work may not be intellectually rewarding (read: boring). It can be tough to feel a sense of accomplishment about what you do, and that sense is actually quite important to the type of people who are ambitious enough to get over the Google hiring bar.

Some people end up losing their drive by working at Google. They get accustomed to not trying their hardest, but still having an awesome day-to-day life.

Some caveats: Many Googlers are clearly among the brightest in the world in their field, and they're able to run full stride in their work. If you take your career into your own hands, you can find a role that challenges and stretches you as much as any other job in the world.

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As a Qualcomm Software Engineer who joined Google, I am paid DOUBLE my Qualcomm salary. So it's okay if I'm bored sometimes. Every day I come to work I know a billion people will make use of the work that I complete that day. A BILLION. The only way I could get paid double at Qualcomm would be to sit on my ass like a VP but I choose not to do it - i write code every day for Google now.

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Post ID: @6odf+ET5jgkB

And all the good people have either left or are on the way out... Q has drive ven them away!

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Post ID: @1zbu+ET5jgkB

QCOM was like this many years back

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Post ID: @1ixe+ET5jgkB

As a Qualcomm Software Engineer who joined Google, I have to sort of agree. Sitting next to me at Google on my team is a PhD-CS-professor from Canada, and a PhD-physics from the UK. We are managing operations for a component in Google Search. Google hires the very brightest because the environment is a BEAR in which to get things done. There are 400M lines of code in 3 languages (Java, Python, C++) and you need to learn 11 languages to be minimally competant in your job (I'm not joking about this, everything inside google has custom syntax and only 3 of the languages ~ python, C++, shell/go are available outside the company, everything slows you down like quirks in the RPC language, the blaze makefile language, the borg job control language, all take weeks to master.) It is the highest case of information overload I have ever experienced. I have to take outstanding notes about everything I do because the next time I do it in 3 months I will never remember the command syntax.

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Post ID: @1ppp+ET5jgkB

can i get PhD in gmail filter theory?

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Post ID: @cxv+ET5jgkB

Well said. IMO it is not that folks are obsessed w/Google, but more like utterly frustrated with all the crap at Q wrt day to day dealings and management. Since the work at Q itself is not really that challenging or exciting, the lack of work culture is standing out more than anything and being compared to other places. Google or for that matrer any other companies seems to have a lot better or relatively and sinificantly less corrupted than at Q. Lack of ethics and integrity in Q management (dir+level) is just incredible.

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Post ID: @pta+ET5jgkB

Folks here could care less about Google, they are in a different industry and most of us chose to be here for a reason. I think there are a couple of trolls that bring up Google every once in a while just to stir the pot. I give like zero f---s about what's going on over there, just like I give zero f---s for Goldman, BMW or any other company that touts their 'best place for work' horn.

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