Qualcomm HYD experience in a nutshell

Once I read somewhere, the first great sign of toxic place is they are always hiring. I will be straight to point I already knew about their immense toxic and overburdening culture before joining. There were few below average engineers from startups and service companies, who didn’t get the liberty to do their thorough research on it and they were all in by the ctc q offers.

My below experience is not personal but based on 4 teams i changed and my friends changed.

First thing straight, its not any US company, the hyd campus is entirely telugu company and you will be surprised by how much communication happens in telugu. You might ask questions in english but they will discuss in telugu and you will be stuck with the same question as it is. In 2 teams, I was asked by my manager to learn Telugu and take its class online for 3 months. I declined, so he gave my annual review as bad at group dynamics.

Second, asking questions here is looked down upon. They have immense old and crapy ecosystem of tools and platforms, which everyone expects you to learn yourself. Nobody will help and nobody wants others to help also. Your manager, lead, colleagues will look down upon you if you ask any work related question.

Third, from may, 5 days rto and they really prefer to come early in office and work till 8-9 late night. Moreover, they will expect you to work late till 1-2 am in lab. Working from home is strictly not a culture. Forget wfh people are straight asked to not even work from break out areas. You should be found only in cubicle. You should be available anytime if you are pinged and you should be ready to work on weekends and holidays.

Fourth, If you think you will learn a lot and gain expertise in your trade, you are mistaken. All manual, repetitive and simply copying pasting work which requires hard monitoring, operation work is in hyd. You will hardly get to build any feature. If do, that too only very very hard more than 20 lines of code in your entire lifetime. If you are super lucky you might get to debug real issues with 1 line of flag set/code. Mostly, its testing,enablement and maintenance work in entire hyd campus.

Fifth, if you think their campus is great like google and free food, remember, they have the worst food causing bloating, and for god sake they still use paper cups for hot tea and coffee like a pan shop. They can’t even afford non-plastic plates,cups,glasses even though multiple times employee complaining about the harmful nature of these substance. Yes coke is free.

Sixth, Hyd itself. It will be 10 times difficult for you to switch from qualcomm. Since semiconductor presence in hyd is nill apart from qualcomm and amd. That too, qualcomm is the only company hiring every-time. Telugus will come here with single mindset to become a lifer here and they all plan to retire and die from qualcomm. But switching from qualcomm is extremely difficult if you want to stay in hyd.

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