Broadcom reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(6,360 total reviews)
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Hock E. Tan

61% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Broadcom has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 6,360 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Broadcom employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Apr 23, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great Company with many good engineers (for now). Again, emphasizes "engineers" only.

Cons

Significant cut back compensation. No more vacation days. If you are good friends with your boss and his boss, you get promoted, great vacation, and raises. If you are not, you are off to deep end without a future nor vacation days. A lot of unprofessional stuff continues on a regular basis for years now. Director and his managers use angry red faces and profanity at maximum volume as ways to get engineers to finish their jobs. Weekly meetings are always your highlight. If you get pulled in behind close door, then detail cannot be provided here without being censored. Bad work and life balance. HR is just a word in this company. They don't really physically exist.

3.0
Jan 8, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Broadcom is a market leader in networking technology. Pretty everyone in the industry use their chips. Consequently, there is no threat to your job. They pay a good amount of money. Stock options and RSUs. Benefits are outrageously good.

Cons

The primary issue is that being a big organization that has to please everyone, jobs are extremely compartmentalized. Therefore, innovation is only within the boundaries of the job assigned to you. You will never get the big picture. In fact, it is not beneficial for the senior management to let everyone get the big picture. Job growth prospects are fairly limited. The ladder to the CEO has close to 15 steps from the bottom, making it difficult to make any real progress.

1.0
Dec 8, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Broadcom has vet solid top management and great engineering

Cons

Unfortunatly all levels of management below the C level are just overgrow kids. They have no management skill and are the least business mature team I've ever seen in a technology company. Pay is far below the industry norm and the culture expects you to work 70 hour weeks on top of it. Broadcom is a company that suffers from it's founder's cowboy, break the rules (and the law) attitude and will never be a good place to work. Avoid it if at all possible

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