Broadcom Reviews

Pros

Opportunities to work with some very smart people and learn cutting edge technologies.

Cons

Sometimes it feels like a cluster of small companies. Your experience may vary significantly from group to group. Internal transfer discouraged.

Advice to Senior Management

Fewer management layers would be better. Grant more stocks to engineers based on performance.

Pros

Highly advanced technology and application. Your hardwork efforts are seen with high revenue of your product.

Cons

Lots of work, no time for vacation, specially if you are in a high performing group with large market leadership.

Advice to Senior Management

Get some life for yourself and for people working under you.

Pros

knowledgeable enginners, ok compensation, and salary

Cons

hard to get promoted, poor life work balance

Advice to Senior Management

give more opprotunity for advancement

Pros

Nice environment
Interns work on real projects
Nice stipend
Cooperative colleagues and mentors
Company has a wide range of products and technologies

Cons

The stipend could have been better
Could not learn much
The mentors and colleagues have a lot of expectations from fresh interns

Advice to Senior Management

The company is really great. The management is top class. The employees are top notch and very talented in their field.

Pros

Company is on the leading edge of what's next
Surrounded by smart colleagues
Managers are great - do not micromanage
Allows for transition and career growth

Cons

Not many employee benefits for Interns
No intern mentor-ship program
Not social, except for family day
Lack of fluid inter-department communication

Advice to Senior Management

Create a solid pathway that would allow interns to join full-time when they graduate. Give's them more incentive to work harder

Pros

Top performer highly rewarded.
Excellent health insurance

Cons

Work life balance Is bad.
Zero vacation days on balance sheet.

Pros

Smart people
Good stack bonus plan
Open working enviroment

Cons

work load is high
need more communication across department

Pros

Great technology, great engineers excellent benefits. The company benefits from the fact that it has been created from many startups because thats where the best engineers tend to be.

Cons

Big company vibe, since it has grown there is a definite increase in the Big Company management system. Just to be expected with a company this large in an environment this fluid

Pros

When you work at Broadcom, you get a chance to look at everything from the silicon, to the board, to the kernel, apps, etc. This is a very different mindset in comparison to other companies who use Broadcom products or similar companies chips/board. For example, if you work at networking company, most of the times you will touch some part of the stack or may be some application. Here we do everything.

Cons

Work and Life is not fairly balanced. Broadcom is very aggressive in competition which means we almost always promise the sky to the customer and as it happens sometimes deadlines slip and everyone is working late nights or is at customer sight resolving issues from a weeks stay to over a month. If you like to be challenged and not stick to one component (SW/HW) and also like travel then you will love the job (which I do too).

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to plan very well. Yes every customer is important, but there should be realistic goals and a mindset for Agile thinking from eliciting product requirements to SW development to shipping and support.

Pros

Good pay, cutting edge technology, challenging projects

Cons

Engineering language is not English but Chinese

Advice to Senior Management

Make Broadcom an American company again