When the CTO uses the phrase "curb engineering inflation", you know you're screwed. - Principal Engineer Broadcom Employee Review

2.0
Jun 17, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great coworkers, and colleagues Very sharp team, and focused on execution Immediate management is very capable

Cons

Senior management doesn't care about employees. And with Avago buying us, it will be even worse. For a CTO that is suppose to represent the collective engineering mindset, it's a huge discouragement when in all hands meetings, he repeatedly says we need to review our engineering staff and ensure we "curb engineering inflation. Come on, we're all engineers and not stupid. just say what you mean. You think U.S. employees are paid too much, and you want to reduce our compensation package and shift as much work overseas as possible. Calling this "curbing engineering inflation" is just insulting.

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