Broadcom Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Broadcom

Pros – fast growing diversified portfolio, stable

Cons – too much work, average pay

Advice to Senior Management – raise compensation

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Broadcom full-time for more than a year

Pros – good for growing your technical skill

Cons – managers are weak, no real management

Advice to Senior Management – train your middle level managers, hold them accountable.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Broadcom full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good benefits, nice gym and flexible work schedules.

Cons – Sometimes there is a lot of stress and pressure. Will have to work nights and weekends and it's more of a thankless job. You don't really learn a lot and they don't really train you. Lack of career advancement and salary raises are minimal.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to revise the way each business unit gets bonuses distributed. If a BU did not do well but shared resources with other BUs, they should not get punished by getting a smaller piece of the bonus pool.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Broadcom full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good location to live and for family life

Cons – There is only broadcom company to work in Irvine

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Broadcom as a contractor for more than 3 years

Pros – Great team environment. Group is usually working on new and exciting technology. Nice campus with a cafeteria. Offer good benefits.

Cons – Annual raises are on the low side, if any. They compensate with RSUs (only if you do really well) but those aren't worth much since the stock isn't very high. Once the stock goes up, upper management starts dumping.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more aware of market trends. Instead of innovating, they just buy companies.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Broadcom full-time

Pros – Easy to mix work and life balance with open schedule. As long as you get your job done ethically no one really cares the manner how you do it

Workload is not challenging nor is it difficult if you can play the right games to set expectations or delegate to someone else

The company is a great market at the right time. The resources are all there to make it great.

Cons – No sense of team or group. Coworkers are at best considered resources and at worst adversaries.

Thankless job. Not a whole lot of thanking or appreciation. No one cares about how long you've worked here your birthdays or anniversaries. There was no holiday party last year because it just "slipped" thru.

Compensation and promotion isn't merit based. The company really only rewards ambition and perception rather than action and productivity. More effort is spent on vision statements and self promotion

Lack of communication. Very little communication when people leave the company or join the company. If you didn't work with the directly how you hear about is through office gossip and rumors. Best way to verify is thru the company directory. If they have been purged there they are gone.

Advice to Senior Management – You say all the right things in statements but the actual doing is lacking. There seems to be a "Hear No Evil" mindset with management and they make decisions that impact us all without very little discussion except within their inner circle of yes men.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Broadcom full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Has lots of interesting things to work on. Sometimes can get mundane.

Cons – Take an engineer, make him a manager without training, what do you get? Unhappy engineers they manage. People are not projects and chips.

Advice to Senior Management – Train the managers to mange people. You cannot ask an ex-engineer to manage people with out training. They only know how to manage projects. People are not projects.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Broadcom full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Very talented people in this company (lots of PhDs). Group is doing industry leading product having significant amount of market share. Lots of things to learn and good for new grad to make their resume pretty. Very tight schedule so you can work on a lot of things in a year (and hopefully new things). HQ is in the best but expensive place in SoCal.

Cons – Annual raise is on the low side. Base salary is low compared to companies in Bay Area, decent if you stay in SoCal. Stock isn't doing that well recently which means don't depend too much on RSU when you negotiate your package. Lots of work with no "actual" reward. If you're happy with your manager saying just thank you after every project and saying sorry after every review, this is the right place. Oh....and the most important thing....having a PhD is a BIG+....treating masters like junks (e.x. you should do this and that instead of xxx, you expect PhD to do this kind of job?)...A PhD got promoted twice over just "2" years..true story. Getting promotion requires "being" the right person and "knowing" the right people.

Advice to Senior Management – Masters are contributing too...give some reward to them...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Broadcom as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Some interesting activities and benefits

Cons – They hire interns all year round because interns are cheap. That's a electrical technician position. Not so much to learn. mechanical tasks.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Broadcom as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Good and experience, and helpful employees.

Cons – should have happening work culture

Advice to Senior Management – Nothing

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company