How is Qualcomm to work for as a SDE ? Pay , career growth, wlb, hikes, etc

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# Companies in India with highest pay

## Good WLB
- Linkedin
- Microsoft
- Google
- Atlassian
- Adobe
- Salesforce
- Intuit
- Apple
- Twitter
- Indeed
- Expedia
- Nvidia
- VMWare
- Intel
- Flipkart
- Inmobi
- Nutanix
- Morgan Stanley
- JP Morgan

## Bad WLB
- Uber
- Tower Research
- Amazon
- Goldman Sachs
- Codenation
- Zomato
- DE Shaw
- Sprinklr
- Arcesium
- Harness
- Coinbase

## Unknown WLB (Didn't find much data)
- Rippling
- Rubrik
- Udaan
- Sumologic
- Cure Fit
- Swiggy
- Ola
- Directi
- ServiceNow
- Stripe
- Sharechat
- Postman
- Oracle (OCI)
- Compass
- HealthifyMe
- Aviso
- Target
- Palo Alto Networks
- Compass
- Vizury
- Qubole
- Practo
- Whatfix
- World Quant
- Alphonso
- App Dynamics
- Citrix
- Cohesity
- MotorQ
- Hasura
- Quadeye
- Bloomreach
- Instabase
- AirBnB

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# Lower paying companies (AFAIK; please let me know if I am wrong)
## Good WLB
- Cisco
- Samsung
- Walmart
- Slack
- Blackbuck
- Oracle (other than OCI)
- Visa
- Intel
- Qualcomm
- ARM
- Broadcom
- Texas Instruments
- Mentor Graphics

## Unknown WLB
- Cred
- Upgrad
- Paypal
- Dunzo
- Unacademy
- Oyo
- BigBasket
- Cloudera
- Twilio
- Box8
- MyGate
- Jio
- MakeMyTrip
- Dream11
- BrowserStack
- Razorpay
- Juniper Networks
- SanDisk
- Redhat
- Chowbotics (DoorDash)

## Bad WLB
- Hotstar
- Paytm
- Wissen

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# Unknown compensation
- Groupon
- Gojek
- Zoom
- Grab
- Truecaller
- Snowflake (Should be high considering it pays well in US?)

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# Visa-sponsors outside US
- Facebook London
- Yelp London
- Booking Amsterdam
- Databricks Amsterdam
- Spotify Stockholm
- Zalando Berlin
- ByteDance Singapore
- Plenty of other options on Stackoverflow jobs.

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# Remote-first companies
- Atlassian
- Slack
- Stackoverflow
- Facebook
- Datadog
- Twitter
- Square
- Shopify
- Github
- Gitlab
- Auth0
- Coinbase

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My friend has got an offer in qualcomm hyderabad office.
He’s looking at how the work life balance and culture is there .
He’s at fresher level
Please tell about it

Hows the work life balance and culture at Qualcomm

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Hi I currently work in Qualcomm as a Software Engineer. I am from 2022 batch. I am in one of the teams where we are doing core software engineering work in C programming language. How hard is it for someone to shift from such a role to a proper Backend Engineer role in a Product based company where the product is more dev centric than some org like Qualcomm?

Regarding plausibility of switch from Qualcomm

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Seen it all. Ask and you shall be informed.

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Engineering Manager

Storytime -

I have around 4 years of experience in QA field where i do manual testing. So i changed my field to frontend dev in pursuit of good salary and thought that software developer will have more roles. My previous company invested little bit in me but did not give any major projects. Then they fired me on basis of lack of logical skills. So i started looking for QA roles and dev role. Also i get to know that sdet roles are also a thing where people can earn as much as sde. 

Now the problem starts, i was laid off and given 1 month salary. So i found one job which is remote and it is of QA job . Until this point i made my mind that i will move on sdet path . Then my friend has referred me to one company before my layoff. So they scheduled one tech interview for frontend dev and i cleared it. I cleared it because my friend give me problem😅. Also there is no hr round and they also released offer. Now the problem is i have joined QA role. i am little bit scared that what if i joined sde role and same thing again happens to me. Little company fires me for not completing my task on time. Then i will lose my current job too and i have to start from zero.

Compensation details -

QA role - 9 LPA
Sde role - 10 LPA

Both are remote. Sde role can be on-site. In my mind , mostly i will reject sde role due to fear. Want to know opinions.

Thank you

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Software Developer

Hi, I recently get an offer of fullstack developer at Qualcomm.
Currently working as Engineer at Micron having 2+ yeo including internship
My current TC 17 fixed
Qualcomm offering 22 base + 16k stocks
Can anyone help me out what should I ask them as I was expecting 25+ as base.
Thank you

Salary Negotiation

Do you think you are under paid compared to the value you add to the product in your organisation as SDE or PMs are getting paid better than you?

I am QA lead with 8 YOE at 30L CTC.

As QA Engineer/SDET what's your current salary with YOE?

Software Test - QA

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Razorpay probably has the most overrated engineering culture from the outsider's perspective. Everytime on Twitter there's some npc telling how Razorpay is a dream place to work at or how Razorpay engineering is the holy grail.
From inside it's hilarious that someone could even think of those things. There's no learning path, especially in payments business unit for engineers who are forever stuck in ad hoc tasks. There's no long term plan, no roadmap, just PM and EMs shoving down and hocs.
Even in terms of learning from peers, there are so few charters where someone works with a lead, mostly it's just slogging it out alone in an ad hoc or some bug fix.
It's almost always an eternal cycle of never working in impactful projects -> never get assigned one, because there are so few -> get average reviews -> again being asked to work on "impactful projects".
 If anyone is under 3/4 yoe they should stay away from razorpay for their careers sake.

Razorpay engineering - a rant

Hi there,
I have technical interview round 1 and 2 scheduled next week on same day for position Engineer: Angular/Nodejs.

Experience 1-3+ yrs : Angular 
1+ SQL
1+ git/SCM

I what type of questions I can expect, what will be level of coding questions and, do they also ask design patterns ?

I have 2.5 years of experience in angular.

Please share your experience if you have any idea of Qualcomm technical interview.


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I have 2 offers. One from a tech company and another from a non-tech company for SDE1 backend. 

The non-tech company is offering me more pay. Significantly more. 

Does working in a tech company offer you any sort of edge over working with a non-tech company? The non-tech company has good WLB. Not sure of the tech company though.

Tech vs non-tech company

I am working as a SDE -1 for a startup for more than a year now, and I am confused what should be hike percentage after getting promoted to SDE - 2 that I should expect or should demand as a bare minimum?

PS. I had 6 working days for nearly a year working 10-12 hours a day.

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Hey guys,

So i was asking questions to one engineer manager about quality analyst. I asked her how sdet as field in general as i already have 5 years of experience in QA field. Learning side by side coding for a next switch. She said do something else except QA as in her experience, her previous companies do not have QA team itself. So i am little confused as a career path. So wanted to ask how you guys software at your workplace and does sdet role will have significance in this market in future?

How you do QA at work and do your company employ seperate QA team/dev need to do everything

I received an offer from a startup with 40% hike through a connection . But I am comfortable with the work life balance in my current company and working on a great product. What to choose now ?

Current role : SDE 1, 
YOP : 1.5 years

What to choose 40% salary hike or WLB

I am an engineer, what I enjoy is solving technically challenging problems. I don't really want to spend my time bothering with non-code solutions to your business problem, and I don't care how much money my code makes you. Just have a tech lead give me a challenging tech problem to solve or build for(WITH the necessary requirements) and I'll get it done. Simple. 


Personally I'm saddened to see how chasing impact has taken over all good tech companies, and how you basically HAVE to create value and take ownership in other ways if you want to be SDE-3 or higher. I would rather be a more technically competent, deliverer SDE (think someone who's extremely good at being an SDE-1). Climbing the SDE ladder is boring.

Any other engineers find it boring and frustrating to chase impact?

To be fair, companies are paying you to earn money, not solve tech 
  
 You have to find things to simplify and innovate in that impact only

Please let me know I am working as SAP SD Consultant from past 2.6yrs now I am thinking to change my career track to SDE roles.
Will it be good decision in terms of pay & perks as I don't see much growth in my SAP profile. 
Waiting for your genuine responses
Thanks in advance.

Career Tech Stack from SAP to SDE

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Is there a threshold after certain experience ? Is it at par with other IT roles ? Can someone with higher experience in IT reveal it ?

Curious how much can someone earn maximum in QA/SDET ?

I go first
Y0 - 14
Y1 - 17 ( appraisal)
Y2 - 32 (switch)

(Copied from Software Engineers community) Let's all comment our TC progression. Looking for motivation.

Growth Manager

The company did around 10-15% silent layoffs in the last cycle by putting people in PIP. 
My Manager told me that he has pressure on him to put at least 1 or 2 people in PIP, make them leave the company and reduce costs.

Later, the company did as low an appraisal as 2%.

Senior folks are leaving specifically Frontend Developers.

Salaries of a lot of SDE-2 are below 30 LPA.

They have started new positions called Product Developers which will do the same work as SDEs but with a lesser package. PD-1 salary is around 10-12 lakhs and of Lead PD is 20-22 lakhs.

The company is putting itself in a position where it wants people to leave on their own.

There are almost zero perks in the company. 
The team outing budget is a joke which is 2k INR per person per year. That is 500 rupees per person per quarter. 

Also making office mandatory from November.

Razorpay is too smart!

Good thing. Anyways their frontend devs and PMs were doing everything on Twitter except tech.

Razorpay has openings for
1. Staff SDE
2. Product Development Engineer 2/3
3. Engineering Manager
4. Product Manager 2

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