Broadcom Reviews

Pros

Great place to work and paid

Cons

After 2016 it was not great

Advice to Management

Nothingto talk about management

Pros

Decent bonuses (if your division meets its goals) & RSUs, fine benefits (but worse than CA's), 401k match up to a certain point, Rally still values work-life balance.

Cons

They are a hardware company and have no interest in meeting the needs of a modern software company. They don't have much empathy for humans & the values of the broader company are very money-centric. We've lost a lot of people and are losing more because we're being forced to move to Broomfield from Denver and Boulder. That puts pressure on the business unit and every individual and forces continual, often difficult...

Advice to Management

Get your people raises in order to balance some of the many things that have been sacrificed through the transition. Fight for a healthy company culture (listen to your people's needs, encourage volunteering and gifting, hire for diversity).

Pros

Nice technology, skilled people and helpful

Cons

constant layoff pressure, rest is good

Pros

Good pay, bonus and rsu structure. Been almost 8 years with the company.

Cons

Direct manager is discriminative and pushing staff to leave, or laying off competitive staff to secure own position

Advice to Management

When making layoff decisions, top executive should collect same division team feedbacks instead of purely listen to direct manager. You’re losing valuable contributors because of bad manager.

Pros

Great benefits. If you're in a high-performing division in a given year, a great bonus. Money was not liberally given for projects, yet it did seem to be spent on the most important things to my actual work (computer, software.). People are smart and hard-working.

Cons

The focus is more on financial engineering than bold technical innovation. The main strategy by management is to buy other companies with established niches, and keep improving the received products until the market has dried up, then repeat. Their is no room for home-grown new products or bold new directions. This can make being an engineer feel humdrum by its constraints. Also there is relentless cost reduction,...

Pros

Great Stock compensation Great Technology Very high skilled groups Nice campus Great Stock performance

Cons

After Avago acquisition, it has become more of a Financial company than a technology company. It now focuses more on acquisition and bottom line than technology developmen.

Advice to Management

Don't neglect the technical development of new products.

Pros

Very focused, great technology, well ran financial business, great pay

Cons

Lack of resources, amount of pressure p, stressful

Pros

All benefits are amazing. Must be present to win

Cons

Infrastructure for business processes and resources are often old not well thought out

Advice to Management

Simplify where we can and reduce non value add processes and learning curve