Employee Engagement

We’re passionate about our people.

At Qualcomm, we are global team filled with exceptional talent. Building on our nearly 40-year history of era-defining technology breakthroughs, we deliver leading-edge AI, high performance, lower-power computing, and unrivaled connectivity.

Our workforce is a virtual melting pot of inventive minds, backgrounds, cultures, viewpoints and skills. We care about our employees and demonstrate its care by providing a strong foundation of support to help our people be successful. From helping to navigate unique and exciting career paths, to providing employee-focused opportunities and resource, we strive to support our employees’ lives inside and outside of work.

We provide employees with frequent opportunities to share their feedback on what it’s like for them to work at Qualcomm. We conduct full census surveys as well as quarterly pulse surveys. Every employee receives at least one survey per year. to ensure annual engagement across the company. Employee sentiment is vigorously and continually tracked, and we are pleased to see high engagement scores.

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We take employee feedback seriously.

We use it to drive change and engagement, retain and develop our people. Leaders receive customized dashboards within a week of surveys closing to help them understand the strengths of their organization and to quickly begin acting on opportunities for improvement. We embed predictive analytics into these dashboards to help leaders prioritize actionable areas that will have the most impact on key outcomes, such as employee retention and morale.

Based on the feedback of employees, different company-wide initiatives and programs, are created, implemented and driven at executive-level to address any global areas of opportunity. The work done in these company-wide focus areas—in addition to team and department-level initiatives--- is key to how we’re continually evolving and improving our work culture and climate. We encourage leaders to use survey feedback to create goals as part of their performance review. We regularly report back to employees on how we’re acting on their feedback.

Beyond climate surveys, we offer other ways of engaging and providing feedback. Some examples of these additional engagement opportunities include:

Empowering our people to publicly recognize each other’s great work

As a Company we work to recognize and celebrate achievements. For example, we hold happy hours and large team events, we host pop-up “Take a Break” events with free food and giveaways to recognize ongoing efforts. However, our recognition culture also empowers employees at all levels to recognize each other’s great work and celebrate milestones.

We have an online social recognition platform that enables all employees to create public recognition for their colleagues. It is designed based on employee feedback received through a variety of listening posts.

Giving employees a direct line of communication with executives

Companywide and business unit “All Hands Meetings” help on a quarterly basis, give employees the opportunity to ask questions of our executives. To encourage engagement, questions may be submitted anonymously, and either in-person or through an app with other attendees voting questions up or down.

Small-group meetings with members of the executive team may be held to give employees valuable opportunities to connect directly with executives and engage in informal discussions with them about the business and culture of Qualcomm. Employees are encouraged to ask questions, share information about the work they’re doing and make suggestions.

Supporting our people to live their best, most productive lives.

The success of our business is fundamentally connected to the wellbeing of our people. We strive to inspire our people to live their best, most productive lives and support them in their important life events. We offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to employees and their families, with choice in quality, life-enhancing programs – including premium-free health coverage for employees and their dependents. The below benefits are just some examples of what we proudly offer at Qualcomm:

Premium-Free health coverage for employees and their dependents
Flexible time off programs to help employees address stress and time-management challenges
An array of convenient onsite services, ranging from medical clinic to physical therapy to acupuncture to vision and dental care to behavioral health
Generous paid family time off benefit for new moms and dads and employees caring for a family member
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) and the use of Restricted Stock Units as a key part of our employee compensation strategy

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Encouraging and empowering our people to build connections and explore their passions

At Qualcomm, we believe that building connections between employees, their families and our communities crate an even more meaningful, fulfilling, fun and productive workplace. Through our engagement programs our people can pursue their interests and hobbies connect to volunteering and giving opportunities, enjoy unique recreational experiences with family and communicate directly with our senior leadership. Our engagement programs support our employees’ lives inside and outside work and empower them to influence the morale, culture and practices of our Company.

Creating cultural experiences for employees and their families

We leverage our partnerships with local arts and culture organizations to create a wide variety of fun and unique experiences for our employees and their families. These engagements include performances by the San Diego Opera and City Ballet of San Diego, family days at different museums and Qkids (Take your Kids to Work Day) featuring STEM experiences for kids.

Connecting our people to our communities

We engage our people in supporting and enriching our communities through volunteering, matching grants, community and board service grants, and other giving and community outreach efforts. Our employee-directed local giving committees help determine how our Company's philanthropic funds are distributed in their local communities. Our giving committees are in more than 25 locations globally and have supported thousands of nonprofits through matching and community service grant programs.

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Cultivating employee Ambassadors to represent our Company in local communities

The Qualcomm Ambassador Program provides opportunities for employees to demonstrate their pride in working at Qualcomm by participating more deeply in onsite engagement events and by representing our Company in local communities. Ambassadors represent Qualcomm in a variety of ways, such as serving on panels, giving presentations at local schools and supporting STEM events on Qualcomm's campus and in their home communities.

Supporting employees to explore their passions

Our Company's Qclub program creates meaningful connections between employees by providing a framework for groups of colleagues to pursue their shared hobbies and interests. Employees have established and run more than 300 registered the clubs around the world. These include a jazz dancing club in China, photography clubs in Arizona and Singapore, a recreational drone club in Canada, a gelato club in Germany and a motorcycle enthusiasts club in India.

Shaping a high-performance workforce.

At Qualcomm, we use data strategically to inform and drive decisions that shape our workforce across the employee lifecycle. Our leaders and HR business partners have direct access to data dashboards related to hiring, performance, engagement, and turnover. This allows them to track the health of their organizations, make informed decisions and evaluate whether specific strategies are working.

We leverage strategic workforce planning to project headcount needs across the organization, monitor progress of requisition fulfillment and ensure we are targeting talent that is likely to succeed.

We utilize a variety of lifecycle surveys to monitor employee sentiment upon hire, every quarter after hire and upon exiting. Each survey provides insights on how our people strategy is working and where targeted actions may be needed--- whether it be a specific organization, employees at a certain phase of their career.

In addition, we compile information on external geographic trends, talent intelligence and competitive insights to help inform a more holistic people strategy. We analyze skill clusters to identify potential sources of talent, such as start-ups and university research teams, for our future hiring needs. We partner with several workforce planning vendors to provide insight on talent pool availability at various locations and look at potential employers, university pipeline, cost, infrastructure, and other factors to provide insight into established and emerging talent hotspots.