[quote=Andrew32]The company I work for now is 5 former QC engineers. Different markets, different projects than what they did at QC. But they did it as a side-hustle for 1-2 years before taking the leap.
Been a long haul but I bet they have enough equity remaining among them each to 5-10x a 40 year QC career when they exit. And they’ll do it in 25% of that timeframe. Not for the faint of heart and high probability of failure, but when it works, it’s impressive. And in most cases, that job is still there if it fails.[/quote]
I have old colleagues that are still managers and directors in corporate R&D at qualcomm. unlike other parts of the company, this is known as the “countryclub group” because I think only in this group are you paid (and RSU vesting) to build shit that never has to see real production use. It’s all prototype and in some cases they are technology demos looking for a business problem to solve…. If that sounds backwards, it’s because it is. anyway, the countryclub mentality is to do enough to rest and vest and since things are only for a demo and not needed for production, you never need to worry about support past a demo or 2…Not my cup of tea, but the resting and vesting is a compelling reason.
I’m pretty confident there are plenty of people moonlighting in that group.
Heck they have time to debate whether people should show up in person for work or continue working remotely. And there’s people who refuse to get a vaccine and refuse to wear a mask because they don’t want to feel discriminated against if they show up in the office and get seen wearing a mask, and people will avoid contact with them. And yet they don’t want to get vaccinated or feel they need to get vaccinated since a lot think this virus is still a hoax.. And then you have the vaccinated people who want other people to get vaccinated and/or wear a mask, who don’t feel comfortable showing up for work unless there is a vaccine/mask requirement. And they’ve been debating this back and forth for some time now.. And then there was a suggestion that company could create a non-vaccinated area and a vaccinated area… And of course you can’t seggregate the vaccinated from the non-vaccinated into two parts of the office, because of course the non-vaccinated people are complaining they would be discriminated against since requiring non-vaccinated to wear a mask, you can easily tell who is vaccinated and who isn’t and those that aren’t they don’t want to be isolated from their peers…..the company of course has to balance this, because if someone does spread covid in the office because people were asked to go back to the office and work, it could be a liability issue since it’s unlikely a company will be perfect in safe handling of people in the office, and if anyone wants to look for a negligence or unsafe work condition, they probably could find it if they really wanted to. I don’t envy being an employer right now.
Ah yes. Everything there is to know about pain in the ass american workers….Kinda funny, only at a big company. If it was me and my company. I’d require a vaccination and mask, and if anyone has a problem with it, they can work from home and if they still have a problem with that, they can quit.
