Training and Development

Learning to grow, advance and lead.

We offer a learning organization. Our people welcome change, revel in taking on challenges and embrace opportunities to learn that arise daily. We care about our people and support them to learn, grow, advance and lead. Each year, in person and online, thousands of our employees expand their knowledge through engineering trainings, leadership and development courses, peer-to-peer education and more. We are constantly creating new ways to help our people excel and advance. Supporting our people to learn and grow strengthens our Company and our ability to engineer human progress.

Supporting employee growth with training and development

Our development programs enable employees with the resources they need to achieve their career goals, build technical expertise, shape management skills, lead the organization and balance their work and non-work lives to the best of their ability. Below is a look at how we’re supporting our people’s thirst and needs for training and development.

Enabling self-service access to development resources

We encourage individualized learning experiences driven by a competency-based curriculum. We enable learning opportunities through multiple modalities, including online content, webinars, instructor-led programs, books, podcasts, training manuals, coding contests, hackathons and internal summits.

Employees can access thousands of curated technical, professional and leadership courses through our enterprise-wide subscriptions to LinkedIn Learning, Safari, Conference Board and IEEE Xplore. We also license relevant content from various niche IP vendors and through our rich ecosystem of global training partners.

Sustaining engineering leadership

We take great pride in our engineering culture and make sure our world-leading technical employees have the freedom and flexibility to continuously develop and refine their expertise in various domains. Our engineering learning and development plan is refreshed every year to closely align with our company's short-term and long-term strategic business objectives.

To enable engineering managers to help their employees maximize their engagement and productivity, we offer Leading Technical People courses globally.

Developing effective managers

We understand the value of strong managers and the impact they can have on employees and the organization. Our Managing the Qualcomm Way program remains a cornerstone of leadership development for frontline managers.

Our manager forums provide an ongoing opportunity for managers to practice with peers and apply learning around conversations that align with the annual review process. We also train managers in key topics related to career development, such as how to help their employees identify and address career goals or how to have meaningful career conversations.

Promoting development through performance appraisals

We understand that well defined performance evaluations are critical to provide employees the opportunity to grow, and to receive recognition for a job well done while highlighting areas that may need more attention. We embrace these types of practices and focus on ensuring that our performance evaluation process helps create tangible paths for employee growth while forging a culture of hard work, accountability, and open conversations with managers and amongst teams.

Employees at all levels of our organization are empowered to drive their individual career development and progression. Aligned with the performance review process, we support them with a robust selection of online resources and instructor-led offerings designed to support employees in navigating their careers. Our employee forum provides an ongoing opportunity for employees to practice and apply learnings. It covers topics such as demystifying career conversations, discussing promotions, ratings and rewards and everyday feedback.

Developing training offerings.

Our Talent and Engineering Development teams conduct an annual global training needs assessment to better understand and address employee development needs. The exercise is designed to identify top themes across professional, leadership and technical domains and ensures that our development offerings are focused on areas most in demand by our employees.

We ask our employees about their learning needs. We’ve found that professional development needs voiced by employees show strong alignment with the way managers rate employees on skills and competencies evaluated during the annual review process. We also partner and consult with our business groups, engineering leaders and human resources business partners to identify and address learning needs and skill gaps and to design/deliver a robust portfolio of customized instructor led trainings, webinars and workshops across our global sites.

We monitor and audit evaluation scores and feedback. We have dashboards that allow easy reporting and analysis of these datasets that enable us to be able to adapt based on what we hear from learners.