Broadcom reviews

3.3

50% would recommend to a friend

(6,353 total reviews)
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Hock E. Tan

61% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Broadcom has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 6,353 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Broadcom employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
2.0
Aug 6, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The compensation is very good. The engineers and lower management are truly excellent. You will work on something good and exciting.

Cons

Baseband business closure is a good example of why the company will have to change or face extinction. No strategic leadership from CEO or CTO and top management. They are not interested in investing and building organically. Cannot steer a technology. Cannot build engineering organization. They will just acquire next company and put sales targets on them. Then leave the integration mess to managers and excellent engineers bail them out of trouble. There is no real R&D effort, only on the books. R&D is considered what engineering teams come up with themselves. Zero accountability at executive level for repeated failures and missteps in baseband business. Inner circle power dominates business decisions. For these reasons other businesses will start failing over time and when key people leave.

1.0
Apr 8, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great peers, nice facilities, plenty of work to be done, company is poised to gain major market share in the next few years.

Cons

FAR TOO LONG HOURS AND NO FREE TIME--EVEN WHEN OFF WORK!! Corporate Services Management lacks the courage to make the right decisions for their employees. Far too many mangement level tasks are delegated to direct reports, then Managements takes full credit for the work. Too afraid to even ask to increase headcount when warranted. In Corporate Services it is very common for under skilled and underpaid contract labor to be utilized in place of actual hired employees. We are told this is an attempt to keep "head count" percentages low for financial analyst, yet it is really Directors and above keeping their department overhead low, and increasing their bonuses. This is why Broadcom loves our current recession -- it keeps their pool of contract workers full. Corporate Services annual employee evaluations are a farce at best. Directors will actually make numerous edits to your own comments before they are allowed to be submitted! All of this results in overburdened and very dissatisfied "worker bees". Management's attitude is "everyone is replaceable" and will be proud to tell you that...

1.0
Dec 1, 2023

Unpaid Maternity Leave

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Stock options are generous to promote that their employees stay with the company long-term.

Cons

12 weeks of UNPAID maternity leave for the United States. Absolutely criminal.

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