I've been at Q for 12 years now, so if I get laid off, my package will be substantial. However, I recently got a new job offer in the Bay Area. Should I wait for the package or accept the job offer?
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I dont thinkl HR is that powerful to blacklist you as a couple of commentators here said. They are jokers and go with manager's feedback to neck people out. So if you had a bad boss and complained, the bad boss gets 100% of the weight. That is the only way you get blacklisted. I really doubt if opposing them in a forum or sending an email on an unrelated topic can lead to anything.
OP doesn't work for Qualcomm
Go back to your cubicle HR ... I wonder how you could be an agent of Q and be at peace with your conscience ... If you have any ...
Just leave instead of being a cheapskate leach. If you have an offer , you obviously planned to get out of Q. Why be a cheesy cheapskate and try to take advantage of severance package when YOU are willingly opting to leave.
Severance package is not intended for voluntarily termination of your employment with Qualcomm. Severance package is usually provided by company to alleviate the pain inflicted on an employee by terminating the employment.
And no this in not HR...
The way it is going at Q, everybody at some point will get the GTFO package.
You will accomplish 2 goals in one shot:
1-You will expose the corruption that rules the Qualcomm governance. If they get embarrassed enough, they may change their ways and make an improvement. This is a great service to the society that you live in.
2- You will get the severance package that you deserve.
This is the "Qualcomm Corrupt Way"
Another good question is to ask HR in front of other employees is to ask them explain the $7.5m fine that they paid SEC for bribing foreign officials by hiring unqualified relatives of Chinese officials. Ask them why an HR director was involved in this while HR is advocating the "Qualcomm Way" :
https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-36.html
This will immediately put yo on HR's blacklist.
What HuG59Mf-imy noted is a good plan, but make sure to carefully document your good work and accomplishments so that when they try to get rid of you--with no package--through a phony PIP, you would have the material to legally defend yourself and threaten them if you needed to. The only difficulty is that this may take a couple of month and you would have to convince your new employer to hold the position for you until you are done with these degenerates at Q.
You have to make an arrangement so that they lay you off at Q. One way is to go to one of the general meetings that HR holds for employees and start asking questions about abusive HR policies in front of other employees. For example ask them to explain why performance reviews are not compulsory, or how are they ensuring they are objective, or why managers have the right to veto all third-part feedbacks for an employee, or ask them why the two engineers committed suicide by jumping from Q buildings in 2010 and 2012, or ask them about the phony PIPs that they use to eliminate their older employees or those who have dared to critisize. They they will immediately put you on their black list and will get rid of you with a phony PIP on your next review cycle.
GTFO package is not what it used to be; Don't expect too much from a company that is in massively declining revenue environment.
You don't have a substantial package, you have a small package.
GTFO before Q replaces you with Indians H-1Bs
You need a kick in the package. Now get back to work.
You don't work at Qualcomm. Move on