Gee, what happened after 2013, did we get a new CEO or something?
http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/best-companies/2013/snapshots/11.html
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work culture tanked after CFO george hired on. no free water bottles, napkins and TP thin and rough, thinning RSUs and bonus.
QCOM does not care about its employees. All executive and company actions past 5 years prove this point. Why workn or a company that does not give a crap about its most valuable asset? Why wait?
Joined in 1996. Had the impression our basestation efforts resembled wanting to make cars but only capable of making a decent transmission.
Engine? Someone else. Interior? Someone else. Wheels? WalMart?
Trying to remember the single-digit employee who was in charge of the final and never finished base station product.
Qualcomm stopped being a good place to work when they sold infrastructure back in 99. It just took a while for the ramifications of that executive action to reach most of the people in the trenches, especially with all the imports that were part of the same change in executive mindset.
The bottom line is Qualcomm used to care about the employees, then the day came when Irwin decided that people were nothing but rented hardware.