India != anywhere else, and this is ruining the sub
99% of the posts here are low quality content, people complaining of being lowballed at offer or getting paid less than same-yoe lateral hires. People complaining about wlb, managers, non advancing in their careers. Sometimes, people straight hating the company.
I am sure these complains have merits, and they totally deserve to be heard. Most of these posts are from India. It is clear that the working conditions of Indian colleagues is pretty bad, and I fully sympathize with you. As a Qualcomm employee I realized this while working with colleagues in Hyderabad or other Indian locations. You guys are always online, whatever time of the day. You guys work on weekends. And we (as non Indian employees) don’t. And then, as a lurker of this sub, I got a confirmation by reading all the disgruntled posts and comment that plague the sub. I am sorry and I wish you guys could get better working conditions.
But these sterile discussions and complaints are ruining this sub. This is not r/fuckQualcomm (which somehow exists).
These issues should be discussed openly and thoroughly, but in a more organized and contained manner. Probably the best way would be to have megathreads dedicated to geo areas and with the purpose of discussing compensation, wlb or anything else major.
Believe me, it’s not about confining and putting away all the complaints. It about consolidating them. Right now they are completely diluted, Every post saying the damned same thing and a couple of comments reading like “Qualcomm bad, what is your yoe, can I dm you”. It’s not good for the sub, it’s not good for the complainers.
And once again, it is tremendously unfortunate and unfair, but Qualcomm employees in other countries (especially Europe) are treated much better. The sub makes it look like it’s just bad everywhere and no space is left for any other kind of discussion (I.e., AR is coming, tricks to make the best out of it? Questions you would like answered, but you can’t ask your manager, why does my damned snapdragon thinkpad run so bad and hot all the time). I think we would all benefit from that. I think this is what the sub is supposed to be about.
Please mods, step in. This sub is useless and honestly dying.