I remember 15 years ago when I started at Qualcomm and we as a company started working with TCS, an Indian consulting/outsourcing firm. It was a big change for those of us in Qualcomm IT. We'd never worked with people in different time zones, never mind people who were now on the other side of the planet.
7 or 8 years later, Qualcomm established its own office and employee IT presence, in Hyderabad, reducing our TCS footprint a bit. When we established what we call QIPL, we moved a fair bit of our TCS headcount in to the QIPL office. We also obviously converted some of our San Diego workforce in to India employees.
In 2012 when I first came to Hyderabad and Hitech city, it was eye opening. Standing at my hotel window and looking around at all the big buildings, filled with employees of big American and European companies, like Bank of America, Deloitte, Amazon, Broadcom, etc; you realized that the world just wasn't the same as it was 10 years earlier.
When it started, QIPL IT had 1 floor in one small building. Now Qualcomm has 5000 employees in Hyderabad (mostly Engineering, but still a lot of IT). Now when you walk the streets of Hitech city, you see Qualcomm buildings everywhere. When you stay at the Westin hotel, which sits at the centre of the city, you run in to one Qualcomm San Diego employee after another. It's very eye opening and an amazing statement of all that our India employees have accomplished. These days QIPL and Bangalore Engineering crank out entire modem and processor products on their own. QIPL IT owns our global operations function. India has become a core of what we do as a company.
7 or 8 years later, Qualcomm established its own office and employee IT presence, in Hyderabad, reducing our TCS footprint a bit. When we established what we call QIPL, we moved a fair bit of our TCS headcount in to the QIPL office. We also obviously converted some of our San Diego workforce in to India employees.
In 2012 when I first came to Hyderabad and Hitech city, it was eye opening. Standing at my hotel window and looking around at all the big buildings, filled with employees of big American and European companies, like Bank of America, Deloitte, Amazon, Broadcom, etc; you realized that the world just wasn't the same as it was 10 years earlier.
When it started, QIPL IT had 1 floor in one small building. Now Qualcomm has 5000 employees in Hyderabad (mostly Engineering, but still a lot of IT). Now when you walk the streets of Hitech city, you see Qualcomm buildings everywhere. When you stay at the Westin hotel, which sits at the centre of the city, you run in to one Qualcomm San Diego employee after another. It's very eye opening and an amazing statement of all that our India employees have accomplished. These days QIPL and Bangalore Engineering crank out entire modem and processor products on their own. QIPL IT owns our global operations function. India has become a core of what we do as a company.
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