Thread regarding Qualcomm Inc. layoffs

We'll find out tomorrow. Half hour all hands meeting can't be good.

Any update on this?

Of course it's non trivial for this site. It's non trivial when you have a burdensome process, when you have people focusing on their visibility than actual work, an uncollaborative environment considering how often people work from home, etc.

There's a little bit more to the integration you mention. Not as trivial as you make it out to be.

Doesn't QC already have a 5G modem and other 5G related stuff? If so, why do they need another site doing the same thing? At most they need a few engineers to integrate stuff.

I just saw this thread. OMG!!!!

I am also at the Bridgewater site in Nj.

You folks are right. This site has problems.

Senior Staff ? Ha! I'm ways off from that title.

I agree with one of the poster, rather imposter, that what would the leftover management do without engineers.

How about 5G ? Doesn't that have a future here ? The actions of the person doing the layoffs is questionable. He's doing favoritism. He'll keep his friends and act as if nothing happened.

Forget about the many directors. There so many senior staff and PEs here.

There are talks about the next version of femto but nothing concrete. But who will take the risk when the current version is a failure? And the development will take too long. I don't see a future for this site unless if they start developing some tech that is trending, and I don't think corporate thinks we have the expertise for this. I think this site is toast.

What was the point of having that big holiday party? They must have known the situation back then. Was it supposed to be joke?

It is indeed unusual and that too not for just a director but a senior director. However, there are many very unusual things at this site. It's very top heavy. There's lots of VPs not doing much. Same with Directors and Senior Directors. Not sure what these VPs and Directors would do after Engineers are let go. Whoever the heck would they be managing ?

So how long do you think this site would last after the first round next week ? If nothing substantial turns up on people's plates we can pretty much kiss this site goodbye.

Yes, he's quite respected. He also still codes. There's another director that also codes and was active in the development of a project. I cannot believe that it's normal for a director to still be coding.

Holy **** you're right. There indeed is a Senior Director with no reports.

I wonder how that happens. Supposedly this guy is quite respected. If push comes to the shove, his boss might have to go back to where he came from since the project he is working on didn't make it

At this location there is a senior director with no reports and he reports to another senior director.

@1lcw

Start with Firing SM and then reduce all crap structure, get rid of senior directors with one reports and layoff the whole QCT quality group is less damage if there no one than bunch of paper pushers..:

When I interviewed here, the VP told me about small cells, and I asked why wouldn't people just use wifi in their homes. He said small cells is better because has better QOS. I thought the VP knew what they were doing.

The rest of Qcom is working on driverless car tech, VR, server chips, augmented reality, etc. What we're doing here is another variant of what we've worked on since we joined telecom. Just get a packet from here to there. Small cells and all variations of this are a commodity, and it can be shipped somewhere else. The execs in SD know that our expertise is in these data pushing products, and we won't get any other type of project. There's no doubt we can do anything, but how do you convince the execs? And will the execs here have any creativity to make something new? Or what about broadening the technology we use to push packets, such as adding a GPU on the next chip and use GPU compute? I don't think any of this will happen.

Some CR&D people are leaving. Where they laid off or did they find another job?

My friend, please stop the cheap language.

Few serious events are about to happen in the coming weeks.

Let's talk about what needs to be done by the site collectively to halt the impending layoffs.

I think they might eventually consolidate and keep 2 floors and get rid of two. The 3rd floor folks have plenty of work it seems. Patents and other 'illuminated' things casted away :-)

Clearly things went very south after the complete lack of sales. The product was good but maybe the market wasn't ready.

Yes I agree with you that there are some folks here who nitpick. That's their forte. Then there are others way up the ladder with zero people skills. Most places would have this mix.

I'd stick around to at least get the severance which might be worth at least 4 months depending upon how long one has been here. But yes, barring a complete turnaround I don't see how they can justify this building as it really consumes some serious $$$.

Need a solid concrete project.

There are plenty of software jobs in the NYC, not just in finance. HW folks are out of luck in this area. Some fintech firms are developing FPGAs to accelerate processing, though.

For this site to fail as badly as it is requires the failure of everyone, not just sales. I'm not familiar with what sales do, but engineering wise, after coming here, I was shocked at how long it takes to get things done here. What takes a few weeks takes months. People put every obstacle in your way to prevent your change from going in. This is not my observation, but also of someone else who came in outside of the original Flarion hires. I know of PE/Mgr who used to point out spelling mistakes in specs.

This site is going to fail. No idea what four floors worth of people are doing.

Correct. NYC kinda jobs are different. Qualcomm does ASIC, reference designs etc. NYC mostly consulting & financial type.

I mean there's Mini-Circuits but who'd want to work there.

You can definitely get a better salary and better benefits if you get a job in NYC, although the work will be entirely different. Commuting to NYC is horrible, though.

Please elaborate what you mean by rest&vest

"There's no real work at this site"

Lol

Well, there was but as you very well know, that work abruptly came to a screeching halt. Guess the marketing and sales folks didn't do their jobs. That's common knowledge.

How many ? That's anyone's guess. People have been actively working the numbers though and I'm sure no manager is willing to give up His or her folks. There's no morale (or morals) left here it seems. There was a time when the site was doing great. Not everyone I believe gets to jump on to the new project.

There are some small ones but would they keep an entire building for those ?

Next few weeks/months are going to be interesting. As far as benefits are concerned this place is one of the best. Creme de'la creme. Doubt whether one would get similar benefits or even a similar salary in this geographical vicinity.

One guy seems to be taking active part in the layoff process. Probably that's his job

There's no real work at this site. Devops seems to be doing OK: they do what they can to over burden the already burdensome process here. I've been trying to leave for sometime now. Issue is that the only good high paying positions are in NYC, and the interviews are far tougher than the one I got here.

Could you give more details, such as how many, what levels, etc.?

You dumba$$ don't know rest&vest