Thread regarding Qualcomm Inc. layoffs

How to make Q great again.

It's pretty simple really. Layoff every single engineer that is SR Staff Mgr and above as they are a complete waste of resources. All they do is sit/sleep on back to back meetings of no use and receive status emails.

If all these are gotten rid off and the next highest rank engineer is given the additional role of leading the team some of his work would get distributed to the people that rank below him and this ripple effect will reduce the hidden unemployment problem.

But the sad thing is knowing the culture at Q this would have to be repeated every few years. The current business of Q can be very easily satisfied with 15K people.

And the second major part. Layoff half all the directors and VPs. Way too many of those than are needed.

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enjoy the last few years folks. the whole industry will fall soon from a lack of innovation and over-priced labor

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Post ID: @7gmy+H54GDt8

You could reduce favoritism, dead weight and the need to demote using a uniform random layoff policy along with a merit based hiring and promotion policy. It the merit based promotion and hiring would contain a lot of residual bias due to cronyism and lack on hiring manger skills. People would be randomly moved between divisions after their project was complete rather than randomly laid off. This would help prevent cronyism without the lose of talent and creating fear. Instead, letting go based on merit would happen every year. Management would would also be moved between divisions.

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Post ID: @1viw+H54GDt8

I agree with OP. I know directors not having no more than 4 reports , Still not able to manage ?!?!?!!

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Post ID: @1gtf+H54GDt8

I agree with original post. Lot of junk accumulated over years. QCOM must get rid of "not required" people from higher hierarchy. Optimum use of resources is not happening at QCOM.

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Post ID: @1nfz+H54GDt8

It looks like all the aggressive responders are nutjobs. I fully agree to original poster. Get rid of all directors and above atleast

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Post ID: @1ubr+H54GDt8

@H54GDt8-taw, you must be one of the useless people at Q because he/she can't handle the truth.

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Post ID: @mno+H54GDt8

Since you are so smart and know how to make great a company, why don't you start your own business to implement your brilliant business ideas? How come a genius person like you spend time on here?

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