I also have this problem. But the issue seems to go much deeper. By default all of my QWidgets get a size or sizeHint of of 640x480. Even if the first thing I do is set QMainWindow size before adding anything to the window the QWidgets are the same default size. I've tried to travel down the rabbit hole and I've tried every setGeometry(), setSize(), setSizeHint() I could find with no change.
There has to be a secret size keyhole somewhere...