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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248 reviews
2.0
Nov 28, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Good overall culture. Scott McGregor has great vision and the company has a good roadmap.

Cons

More senior employees do not feel respected and valued. Seems like the team has high turnovers (due to better opportunities elsewhere) and senior members being replaced with more and more junior (thus cheaper) engineers. Vacation policy (no longer accumulation based) is just pure wrong. Compensation is unfair (under market value especially for senior people). A lot of work but no reward (which leads to lack of motivation and turnovers).

4.0
Nov 7, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

*Smart people to work with. *Lot of good projects to work as it still operates as a R&D company

Cons

* Sometimes too many cooks in the kitchen slows things down * Politics among different groups * Not great on compensation

1.0
Oct 10, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Good execution in top management and good corporate efficiency overall, especially on a low program budget. Showy inflated position titles but not necessarily also compensations.

Cons

Low standard in line management. Manipulative, verbally abusive, trick-playing, and over-powering practice of team management seen with an infamous individual manager. Cheap, harsh, and cow-boy style of management which fooled or took advantage of employees. Managers happily took away innovative, diligent, and quality contributions often at employee's extra sacrifice of personal time and life, but hesitated to compensate back, eating free lunch with selfish personal career advancement while breaking fundamental trust with employees. Denied mistreatment to last minute, and for years took no meaningful action to recognize employees until employee resignation. Precious years of career unfortunately spent with such manager/employer.

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