Everything is cost-oriented.
It doesn't matter if your idea is good and technically proven if you have a good work ethic, culture, and or any dreams regarding how to move the company and technology forward.
The only thing that matters is money making.
They will buy company after company and destroy anything and everything the previous company built. They will care only for cost-cutting during acquisition and then slowly sun-set the product whilst making the maximum cash flow they can, without giving back anything to the customer.
And then, when they are done, they will move to another company to buy so that their stock can continue growing.
Everything you can find online about them that is negative is true. As a person who has been through the acquisition of VMware, I can say that everything we thought was only rumours on the internet became true.
I don't want to parrot my past colleagues on the topic, but I will try to summarise the working conditions as follows: if Broadcom wants something from you, they will get it and will do so at any cost. If you want anything from them, you will be ignored to the max until necessary.
Getting the hefty severance might be nice, but I'm not sure if it's worth the psychological trauma you will go through to get it.
Also, if you are not chosen for termination during acquisition, you can never be sure if you won't be fired later on or if you will get stocks at all.
Vmware, with all its ups and downs, was a net good to the world. Broadcom, I am not sure.
