Visa or Qualcomm?

Oooh what’s the disaster? My friend works there and tells me of all the substandard FOB indian “talent” and how even with only undergrad he’s basically having to do the work of all the people in his team who can’t do anything

Oh boy i can rant on and on. Yes your friend is not completely untrue. Just ask anyone on Blind who works at Qcom 1. Entire teams and orgs sometimes are specifically made up of people from a specific ethnicity/location in India. 2. Entire teams are sometimes only staffed by people who basically came here on L1 visas from India. They all got transferred here . Either they are way too talented / the team couldnt get any quality resources here in the US (which is true considering how much dead weight some teams carry) 3. The pay is pathetic. Qcom has a no negotiation rule. New grads got $95k base package a few months back. This reduces the quality of candidates coming in . You get what you pay for. 4. Stock basically remained flat for years on end. Even other HW companies stocks hve done well (AMD, Intel, Nvidia). This means people went underpaid for years on and finally when stock broke out, they handed over millions of $$ to the executives. Employees who actually do work (Eng, Sr Eng) got peanuts. 5. Lots of deadweight in teams. Some teams like Modem have people who are basically coasting (rest and vest) until retirement. Ask the average age of a team. No fresh blood wants to work here. I agree having a good experienced team lead is a good deal, but teams here have not increased their skillset s in decades and hence a new grad has nothing significant to learn from them (except learn how to play politics) 6. The average promotion process is completely rigged in many teams. This results in a very unequal distribution of promotions across orgs. You can be an excellent engineer and get promoted to Sr. Staff/Staff in say 5 years, whereas someone else can get promoted to the same level in 2 years. Again, what gives ? Do you think 2 years is a measurable timeline to even be considered for such a high promotion , especialu when youre their colleague and know exactly what they have done? 7. The people that I have met fall into 3 categories - a. Lazy/Unmotivated , b. Prepping to move out , c. dont give a fuck. And if you find people belonging to all these category acroos your team, you know something is up. It also keeps team morale down, because noone wants to be left behind, everyone wants to either play politics to get promoted / work on Leetcoding to gtfo soon. 8. No one , i mean no one has any measurable/relavant skillset here. The average quality of engineering is very very low. They couldnt write a for loop if their life depended on it. Everyone is like leading some team (meaning they are glorified paper pushers) 9. We have negative rate of return offers accepted by our interns. Bluntly put, no one wants to work here unless they are the last choice. PERIOD. 10. Lack of an effective PIP process essentially makes sure than only the low performers stay and the high performers leave as soon as they can leetcode out their way. Of ourse this means a wonderful “WLB” Mediocre breeds mediocrity.

And looks like idiot as well

Keep drinking the kool aid bruh.