Broadcom reviews

3.3

50% would recommend to a friend

(6,350 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 6,350 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
1.0
Dec 14, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Good exposure to tech. Good place to contribute towards cutting edge projects. It was decent till Hock Tan and his band of merry corporate raiders came along and now everyone is pissed off and concerned about the future. It was good till they decided not to invest in R&D and decided to count every nickel, change the culture and make empty promises. Lies after lies since May after the acquisition.

Cons

This party is done. A huge culture shift is underway. Broadcom innovation culture with doing the impossible is dead. The new management wants to streamline costs and not invest in R&D. The management policy is to have established franchises which require the bare minimum of R&D. Financial metric driven culture with micromanagement. Keep shareholders happy for the short term is the new norm. No longer a fun place to work. Massive layoffs are being planned. The new company brings nothing new to the table except a giant Axe for cost cutting. There are no new ideas just empty silly promises of a better compensation

1.0
Jun 22, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Colleagues are great, and top notch engineers No-nonsense, talented engineering leaders in the division

Cons

A CEO and CTO that cares more about short term personal profits A CTO that cares more about the Anaheim Mighty Ducks that he owns Selling out to the worst possible technology company, Avago

1.0
May 26, 2020

Demoralizing, nonexistent work-life balance

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

RSU's are nice, company's stock performs well

Cons

Upper management hates headcount, they'll lay people off solely on the fact that they want the team smaller so they can push up the stock dividends a couple cents higher next quarter. They'll lay off talent and those that know the product best just to save a buck or two. Ends up killing the product line and they let the rest of the team go soon after. Management is heartless. Politics is rampant, you can't escape it. If upper management doesn't like your numbers, they don't care, you and your department are gone immediately, even if you have had a bunch of successful quarters and one doesn't do as well. They are also very greedy. They do not like to share in the bonuses or dividends, the less people getting those, the better. Broadcom has almost no employee loyalty. They expect long hours with no compensation or a thank you and no guarantee you'll keep your job. There's no work-life balance, I've worked every federal holiday this year and most weekends. I've had to drop out of classes in school just to keep my job. Otherwise, I'd be let go if anything were to take precedence over my job. Since working at Broadcom, I can't hardly take a day off, I almost have to ask for weekends off. I'm constantly having to reschedule doctor appointments because I can't get a break to go. I can't remember what it's like to work an 8 hour day, I've worked mostly 12-16. They hate work from home, they also hate remote employees. Anything they can do to eliminate that, even if it means laying off the best guys on your team, they'll do it. No communication from the top, management does not tell lower management or employees what they're thinking. Once they've made an instant, poorly thought out decision with no input from others, there's no changing it.

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