Broadcom Reviews in Los Angeles, CA Area

Pros

working with smart people who share information and experience freely
opportunity for advancement within many BU within the company
state of art project

Cons

Irvine is quite and expensive city
research environment is not as good as Rampus or Intel
after being for awhile you might get bored

Advice to Senior Management

more parties are needed to socialize and get to know your peers.
provide housing for intern who is working for short period.

Pros

A vast majority of engineers I have worked with in Broadcom are very dedicated and technically very sound. Depending on when you join, the equity compensation could be very enticing.

Cons

As Broadcom grew it is losing its tradition. The company is becoming more and more top heavy. The equity compensation drastically rolled back and engineering work is no longer directly tied to compensation.

Advice to Senior Management

It takes risks to make Broadcom successful in the past and it will take risk for us to retain our market positions. Invest in the future and don't play second-fiddle to Q.

Pros

It is sometimes possible to publish the work done in the company, which is good if you reconsider academic positions. The designers' quality is pretty good.

Cons

Should give some awards, even small, to officially praise employee' excellent work in the company. The employees need some sort of advertisement.

Pros

location; nice campus; that's about it.

Cons

everything else; Reminds me of the movie - Horrible Bosses

Advice to Senior Management

be careful who you hire.

Pros

There are a lot of room for growth and development.
There are also a lot of different groups and job opportunities within Broadcom which allow people to try expand their expertise in different areas.

Cons

There are not a lot of Cons, however if it not a 9am-5pm type of job. It requires a lot of hours and dedication.

Advice to Senior Management

the best advice I can give is to increase opportunities for Technical growth by offering on site classes and sessions that would allow engineers to increase their expertise in different areas.

Pros

Good learning opportunities come while working at broadcom

Cons

Pay is equal to the amount of work required

Advice to Senior Management

Work on professional and work life balance

Pros

- great technology
- expert co-workers

Cons

- no career opportunities
- work highly dependent on group

Pros

- fortune 500 company
- stable salary
- best class practice
- good management execution

Cons

- low morals
- lack of culture
- lack of motivation

Advice to Senior Management

be respectful to employees.
learn how to inspire the team
spend time to listen to each employee's concern and provide the customized needs

Pros

Good name and stocks
Good place for starting your career
Strong technical know how and talented people through tons of acquisitions
Good enough job security however not the great place to work

Cons

Lots of politics at management level. Crapy pay !!
Difficult to grow, lick your managers feet to come up, talk useless, shout, argue, play dirty games, trick others, insult others is the best way to work at Broadcom and get noticed.

Advice to Senior Management

Get you act together,manager says some different story than it's Director. Everybody at broadcom thinks that they are great :) and have a very stupid great attitude by working there. I mean its just one more company like others and infact other companies are better

Pros

Great products, good strategy. Excellent benefits, good compensation. Company cares about employees and listens to employees. CEO has great internal blog.

Cons

Nothing major, increase manager training.