That's why you should never write any code comments

Learn from us experts that have already gone through what QC putting you guys through as it gradually replaces each of you domestic counterparts with cheaper offshore workers.

Don't write any code comments, or if you do, don't explain how things work
Create silos of local work groups and work face to face.. No email on how/what you've done.
If overseas teams ask you how to do things, give a broad brush overview, no details.
Write more complicated code that is more difficult to understand, provided it does not affect the underlying performance/reliability.
Don't write complete design documents. IF you write design documents, write enough to get management to think it's done, but not enough for engineers offshore to do anything useful with it.
Occasionally, take a vacation day off on short notice, and let things just "blow up" after you hand off your work to offshore teams. When you come back and things are completely not working, send lots of email about what a terrible job people have done...
Always blame problems on offshore teams, no matter how small.
Always blame the reason why you problems can't be fixed earlier is because there is a 15+hour timezone difference between headquarters and those remote offices.
Hold meetings at times that is convenient for you but in the middle of the night for those offshore teams.
Make sure your meetings you conduct locally are as efficient as possible and make your local U.S. totally in sync and ahead of the work schedule before you even meet with the offshore team. That way, it makes them look incompetent.
The best meetings are the ones held at 5:00pm PST on Friday, since that will be Saturday overseas, so the ones that most won't show up.And the ones that do show up, end up having to take time off their personal schedule to do it...Make sure this is a reoccurring weekly meeting...
At the last minute, reschedule those meetings for the next week (but continue to meet locally and carry on your business).
Make sure you send out a meeting notes to senior management, indicating who attended and more importantly, who didn't attend...
When someone screws up overseas, always make sure you take the initiative to fix the problem, and make sure you send out 5+ emails telling management how you fixed the problem, describing in extreme detail how things got so screwed up and how you fixed it.

And most importantly, if you're going down, you might as well create as much havoc internally inside the company as possible. Nothing is worse more than a company has so much internal conflict that efficiency and productivity comes to a halt..It's 10x worse than any sort of external competition....And that's the predicament corporations and will put the company in when it starts trying to just save on "cost" by offshoring....

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The Germans have it right

Always Be Branding.

I worked with a PR firm to help my last review cycle. I got the best rating since I joined!

Great advice on surviving the bureaucracy that the Q has become; everyone for themselves. It's all about visibility and shifting blame as needed

Pure gold advice

Better yet, write in assembly the critical part of your code and do not comment. That will screw everyone up bigtime.

I like how Germans do it: 1) Country First, 2) Employees Second, 3) Customers Third, 4) Shareholders last - they thrive and take care of their country and workers.

profit issues:

"Earlier this year, Qualcomm (QCOM) had committed to returning 75% of its free cash flow to investors in the form of stock repurchases and dividends. Qualcomm exceeded this commitment by returning 93% of its free cash flow or ~$7.1 billion to stockholders in fiscal 2014. At the end of fiscal 2014, Qualcomm still had $5.3 billion of stock purchase authorizations remaining for completion next year."

YEAH BABY!!! wages are for suckers.

I'm actually anti-union ironically. But I believe in self-preservation, at all costs...Better someone else than me...

You see. The only thing I will never understand about american companies is the following.....

When foreign companies are starting to have profit issues, the very first thing foreign companies do is close down remote offices and recall opportunities back to the home country. It does two things (1) it demonstrates commitment to domestic employees, and domestic employees get the wakeup call to work harder. Sony is doing that just now. They are getting slaughtered once upon a time when their very lucrative TV business in more recent times have turned into a money losing business. They recently closed most of their San Diego operations and have moved most of that line of business back to Japan, which arguable has an even higher cost structure than in the U.S.

U.S. companies are the only companies that when things get bad, they decide "hey, let's move all the work overseas and pay people 1/3 to 1/2 the wage, at 60-70% of the quality, while simultaneously increasing the executive compensation package..." Of course, U.S. companies don't have to deal with the ramifications of paying people unemployment for 1 or maybe 2 years. That's our government's problem, which ends up being our taxpayer's problem indirectly...

And then of course, when people don't have jobs to be spending $400-500 on that iPhone 6s or Samsung, LG, HTC, top of the line phone because the American consumer is all tapped out on credit, US companies wonder why they can't hit their profit numbers in the U.S....

Go figure...

But regardless, QC is in a bad predicament that other companies in the U.S. has already experienced. It depends more than 40% of it's earnings on business overseas, and once they make concessions on their royalties in China (which I'm sure they will), it's just a matter of time before every other OEM asks for the same concessions..

Why do you think QC is being overly aggressive into trying to expand into other areas of connectivity and server side markets via acquisitions? Because the R&D well is dry, and nothing new that has been earth shattering has come out of QC in a long time...

That's why QC is going after Intel's marketplace and other wireless chip companies elsewhere and why Intel is going after QC's market share too...

Everyone is out of ideas...

All that marketing fluff about "Internet of Things"....Is just that...marketing fluff. Wall street analysts are jumping on this as if it's the next big thing.. It might be..But more importantly, what are the margins going to be like versus what the smartphone markets were like..

QC has an advantage currently being the top tier supplier of LTE and app processors, so they can afford to charge a bigger margin for being #1...

But that margin is getting smaller and smaller..

And in a lot of overseas market, they don't want "the best" and aren't willing to pay for "the best". They will settle for "good enough" if the price is cheap... And that's where companies like MediaTek and other local players (some backed by the government itself) will play well in...

It's been proven time and time again...NO U.S.COMPANY will ever win if they compete on cost and cost alone.... Which is exactly where a lot of this business is heading in those markets overseas..

It really is a race to the bottom...

GOLD

The title should be: "HOW TO RESIST AN OFFSHORING ATTACK"

Anonymous55950 - you are a genius. I wish we had an union, you'd be a my choice for the president.

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