Broadcom Principal Systems Design Engineer reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(248 total reviews)
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Hock E. Tan

86% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Principal Systems Design Engineer employees have rated Broadcom with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 248 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Systems Design Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Broadcom is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Principal Systems Design Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Aug 17, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Does the following sound like you? * Like writing code in a fast pace, yet laid back atmosphere * Understand intuitively that software process is over-rated * Appreciate that the very best way to do unit testing is during system integration. *Still learning programming but believe that any language invented after C is will never work and is unnecessary. *Think its awesome that so many of your colleges are hardware engineers - trying their hand at writing product code.

Cons

Broadcom is a hardware company - that now finds itself with a large and growing software problem. If you know software then you know that building a software system with 200K lines of code is much much different than building 20 systems that are 10K lines each. It's like trying to build a modern sky scraper when you've only built garden sheds.

1.0
Jul 25, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good Comm Scientists and Engineers. Most I've met are dedicated, hard working and believe they have Broadcom's best interest at heart. Decent RF and modem baseband HW.

Cons

The amount of SW in required for new products in this space is increasing exponentially. The current management at all levels doesn't have the training or experience to deal with that. This is The issue that will prevent Broadcom from competing effectively with Intel and Qualcomm.

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