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4.1
Average Rating
(based on 273 Qualcomm Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
4.1
Growth Opportunities
3.7
People You Work With
4.4
Person You Work For
4.3
Rewards You Receive
4.0
Support You Get
4.2
Way You Work
4.2
Work Setting
4.2
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"Qualcomm is one of the greatest places to work! Provides abundant work opportunities in vast area of engineering and technology."
Posted 9 years ago in San Diego, CA
Programmer Analyst

"Good company to work for."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
PCB Designer

What do you like about working at Qualcomm?

"Great people and great team spirit, always worked to solve problems as a team."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"To appreciate your people who work for you, and make them your most prized asset."

What don't you like about working at Qualcomm?

"The VP in charge of the whole work force, he was only concerned about how far up the ladder he could go, and would not let anybody stand in his way. A very unliked person."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Have a main office VP who was in touch with his staff instead of doing whatever for himself, and didn't care about his staff."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Software Engineer

"Met many excellent engineers there."

What do you like about working at Qualcomm?

"Working with lots of talented engineers and being able to contribute to interesting projects."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Try to relax, and thank everyone for interviewing you. You will most likely meet with 5 or more interviewers."

What don't you like about working at Qualcomm?

"Far too many meetings! So many that they were counter-productive."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Use better judgement in the number of required meetings. Too many meetings not only takes away from a precious resource: time, it adds lots of stress."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Technical Lead

What do you like about working at Qualcomm?

"The work culture is very good. Compensation offered is also good."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Company as such by culture and working atmosphere is very good and healthy."

What don't you like about working at Qualcomm?

"I have no clarity about the future assignments, and projects in pipeline."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Engineer

What do you like about working at Qualcomm?

"I can work on new and upcoming technologies which help me stay up to date."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Should have good and deep knowledge of the work you are currently doing."

What don't you like about working at Qualcomm?

"It is contract job and I am looking for permanent job."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They should foresee the need for employees, hire accordingly."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Intern

What do you like about working at Qualcomm?

"Friendly people, good working environment, global culture, and decent pay."

What don't you like about working at Qualcomm?

"Pay could be better."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"A lot."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Layout Designer

What do you like about working at Qualcomm?

"Many challenging projects, training opportunity, CAD support, team work and help."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Prepare for more advanced CMOS process such as 28nm and 20nm."

What don't you like about working at Qualcomm?

"Only temporary job, other temp workers were converted to direct without interview."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More time spent with employees, more project meeting, regular team communication."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Automation Engineer

"Work with some of the best talent in this domain. Learning is great."

What do you like about working at Qualcomm?

"Work atmosphere. Great talent. Lot of projects and opportunities within the organization."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"One must have good grasp over fundamentals of programming and testing."

What don't you like about working at Qualcomm?

"Nothing per se. Very satisfied with the company. Great work culture."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Sometimes people spend lot of time in meetings which are not very important."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Design Engineer

"Challenging, yet very negative atmosphere."

What do you like about working at Qualcomm?

"Challenge, learning resources, flexible timing, good benefits and gym, experienced people."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be wary of the negotiation process, and don't let the staffing manager dupe you into a bad relocation/sign-on bonus package."

What don't you like about working at Qualcomm?

"Made to do tasks I don't like, made to work like a machine, negative atmosphere."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"In a team of 40 people, you should know how to equally distribute work, not make 10 people do the work of all 40... and not pay those 10 people as much."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Software Design Engineer

What do you like about working at Qualcomm?

"The company is good, but Boulder site is bad."

What don't you like about working at Qualcomm?

"My strength cannot be utilized."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be smarter."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Firmware Engineer

"Good company with glass ceiling."

Senior Engineer
Person You Work For 3.9 / 5 People You Work With 3.9 / 5 Work Setting 3.9 / 5
Support You Get 3.7 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.6 / 5
Staff Programmer Analyst
Growth Opportunities 3 / 5 Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 3.5 / 5
Software Group Manager

"Great company, too bad they bet on the wrong cellphone provider."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4.8 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Software Engineer

"I worked for Atheros 2004-2005."

Person You Work For 3.9 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5

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Is Qualcomm a good company to work for?

Qualcomm has an overall rating of 4.1 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 273 Qualcomm Review Ratings left anonymously by Qualcomm employees, which is 5% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 98% of employees would recommend working at Qualcomm.

Does Qualcomm pay their employees well?

Qualcomm employees earn $81,000 annually on average, or $39 per hour, which is 23% higher than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 117 Qualcomm employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Qualcomm Salaries by Job Title.

How satisfied are employees working at Qualcomm?

98% of employees would recommend working at Qualcomm with the overall rating of 4.1 out of 5. Employees also rated Qualcomm 4.1 out of 5 for Company Culture, 4.0 for Rewards You Receive, 3.7 for Growth Opportunities and 4.2 for support you get.

What is the highest paying job at Qualcomm?

According to our data, the highest paying job at Qualcomm is a Senior Vice President at $301,000 annually. Browse Qualcomm Salaries by Job Profile.

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According to our data, the lowest paying job at Qualcomm is a Sales Representative at $16,000 annually. Browse Qualcomm Salaries by Job Profile.

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