Pros
Your experience may vary widely by division, but in general some things are done well: Automatic header files from RTL Capital expenditure for HW, SW, FPGA emulation Automatic build, boot, some CI infrastructure
Kontras
QCT specially is very process heavy QC just lost its entire custom CPU core team after they bungled the Datacenter division: huge blunder for a chip company to lose its entire custom CPU team.. bleeding talent right now Core teams do work, and then there are root teams per customer A lot of QCT firmware teams don't like to adopt standards/open source software Linux development is very process heavy with small things needing legal approval Management was great under founders, but progressively losing its way: current "leaders" are in panic mode and if they go down route of 30 billion dollars buy backs, that's the beginning of the end Even after layoffs, still a lot of fat in SD, lots of layers of mgmt, too many status collectors