Qualcomm India Layoffs: Over 1,000 Jobs at Risk Amid Global Cuts
About 1,000 jobs, or 5% to 6% of its India workforce, are at risk as Qualcomm ties cuts to a performance-driven restructuring.
- US-Based Qualcomm has started layoffs at its Bengaluru operations in India, where approximately 1,000 jobs are at stake as part of a global employee restructuring.
- Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon announced a global workforce restructuring on 20th October as a performance-driven initiative to align staff with emerging business priorities beyond smartphones.
- The initial cuts affect senior engineers across RF, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GNSS teams, with potential expansion to research centres in Hyderabad, Delhi NCR, and Chennai.
- Affected employees have been offered three months' salary in severance, plus an extra month's incentive for signing exit documents within three days of receiving them, reports suggest.
- These layoffs reflect a wider industry trend; Canva, Oracle, Amazon, and Meta have all carried out reductions, with over 80,000 jobs reportedly lost in Q1 2026.
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Qualcomm India layoffs: Over 1,000 jobs at risk amid global cuts
CEO Cristiano Amon has described the exercise as a performance-focused reduction, while Qualcomm’s latest annual report puts its global workforce at 57,000; the company did not respond to a request for comment on the reported India cuts
Qualcomm Layoffs In India: Employees Reveal What The Company Is Offering As Severance
Qualcomm layoffs in India could affect up to 1,000 employees as part of a reported global restructuring involving approximately 3,600 job cuts. Qualcomm's reported global job-cut plan could put around 1,000 positions in India at risk as the company looks to reduce its workforce by 7%.
According to reports, Qualcomm's global layoffs have reached India, affecting around 1,000 employees. The company declined to comment, but another round is expected in January next year, citing AI and cost-cutting as the reasons.
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Qualcomm begins India layoffs amid global workforce restructuring
New Delhi: US technology corporation Qualcomm has started laying off employees in India as part of a broader global workforce restructuring programme. The exercise is expected to affect around 1,000 employees, or nearly 5-6 per cent of its workforce in the country, according to reports. Layoffs apparently began at Qualcomm’s Bengaluru operations and primarily affected … Get the latest updates in Hyderabad City News, Technology, Entertainment, Sp…
Qualcomm begins layoffs in India, around 1000 employees may lose jobs amid global restructuring
Qualcomm has reportedly started laying off employees in India as part of a global restructuring exercise that could affect around 1,000 workers. The job cuts have begun in Bengaluru and may extend to its engineering centres in Hyderabad, Delhi-NCR and Chennai.
Qualcomm layoffs begin in India, here is what Indian employees may get as severance
Qualcomm has reportedly begun laying off employees in India with as many as 1,000 roles being eliminated. Impacted employees have given shared details of the severance packages they received online.
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