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Re:Qualcomm – one of Arm’s biggest customers – starts a RISC... by aborsy on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:34AM (#37023041)
Can you mention examples of toxic practices to better see the situation?
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Re:Qualcomm – one of Arm’s biggest customers – starts a RISC... by FirmwareBurner on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:39AM (#37023102)
Heavily depends on manager/team/business unit, but the main issue is usually insane workload and insane deadlines on projects that are already alte from the moment they start because sales/marketing/execs promised $MAJOR_CUSTOMER something totally unrealistic will be delivered.

The churn level is high. People are constantly fired, let go, or leave after their relocation bonus expires if they don't see any promotions after their tolls.

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Re:Qualcomm – one of Arm’s biggest customers – starts a RISC... by lnsru on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:17PM (#37025530)
There are insane deadlines in semiconductor industry. We started many times already being too late to make main customer happy. I was able to catchup couple times doing 55-65 hour weeks. But it gets slowly normal practice instead of exception.

Tooling is also very specific. There are gazillions of scripts written in all possible languages for all sorts of semiconductors. Some colleagues will happily backstab you not sharing information about their tools.

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Re:Qualcomm – one of Arm’s biggest customers – starts a RISC... by FirmwareBurner on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:35PM (#37025727)
>Some colleagues will happily backstab you not sharing information about their tools

Oh yeah, that sounds familiar.

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