Broadcom Reviews

Pros

fast paced environment. good tools and skill usage. okay compensation. projects change rapidly so lot of learning. international exposure due to multi site .

Cons

Annual review budgets are very constrained . This is the story every year. Stocks comp reducing every year. no Stock options

Advice to Senior Management

transparent reviews
provide opportunity for advancement
hire from within than go out for skill
have project at one site
dont split project

Pros

World leader in SoC and Internet chips design

Cons

Short time to live for many projects

Advice to Senior Management

Value people, not products only

Pros

Aggressive Company
Great Technology and Customer Focus

Cons

Career Development is not focused on
Work Life Balance is not great

Advice to Senior Management

Focus more on creating opportunities for best employees to advance - train the next generation of leaders

Pros

Opportunity to work with very intelligent and smart people
full responsibility and independence of work assigned

Cons

They don't consider intern for full time positions

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Innovative culture. Goal driven, hard working engineers. Work with latest technologies.

Cons

Could improve social environment. Office is mostly quiet.

Pros

Great place to work for engineers. Opportunities to work on great products with smart people. Thin on other functions but great opportunities for SG&A folks to advance as well. Generally strong leadership team. Blend of small company culture with large company resources. Global footprint.

Cons

Staffing in some areas is thin, and some managers should go back to being engineers. Infrastructure needs to keep up with company growth.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep working to maintain balance between best of small company and resources of large company. Ensure cross BU cooperation. Support employee transfers and rotations.

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

Avery aggressive company, you need to work hard and learn fast. Professional skills grows fast. Health insurance is good.

Cons

salary is not as good as before when Broadcom is still a start-up. Compare to the work load, it is below average of the industry.

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.