Great place for deep systems/firmware engineers, slower pace but strong stability - Anonymous employee Qualcomm Employee Review

4.0
Feb 10, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Real engineering work – Lots of low-level systems problems (RTOS, interrupts, scheduling, memory/resource management, logging, silicon bring-up). You’re working close to hardware, not just application glue code. • High technical bar – Many experienced senior/staff engineers. Design reviews go deep and you learn a lot from peers. • Ownership – Once you earn trust, you can design and drive features end-to-end with relatively little micromanagement.

Cons

Slow processes / bureaucracy – Cross-team alignment, approvals, and integration can take longer than they should. Simple changes sometimes require many stakeholders. • Legacy codebase – A lot of historical tech debt. Debugging and maintaining old systems is common.

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Cons

bad leadership at every level…unrealistic timelines…no training/mentorship…every other week the VP will join team meeting and gaslight you for not using some mediocre and bad tools… very fake environment.. where “leads” will act like they want 2 help but won’t or can’t … everyone is over worked.. very normal for leads to yell at people..or gaslight you.. they love to push people…aka overwork and everything is due yesterday and “urgent”.. this DOES NOT mean challenging technical work..this means fake fires and last minute requests daily.. pte mobile is really a mess and can’t even say it’s worth it..you will not learn a good skills because us team is basically a front for india team doing a lot of work behind the scenes..this means also a lot of late night meetings with teams abroad.. one “celebration” of the last year was the removal of sunday evening meetings..if you have other options go there..if you don’t..never stop applying .. if you are interviewing here…they will say that they are working on innovating tech (but this group..not really)…are addressing wlb/concerns…which is not really true..a suggestion…reach out to teams on linkedin and see if this is worth it 4 u

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