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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4.0
Sep 22, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Being a large company, the pros will vary depending on which group you are in and how you negotiate when coming in and who your boss is. It is a large stable company and weathered quite nicely the housing crash with lots of cash and laying off only a few percent when other companies were axing up to 15%. Engineering staff are excellent (most have PhDs). If you are an engineer, you should be able to colloborate and gain valuable experience. You will typically work on all the latest tools and processes.

Cons

It's a large company with all the normal downsides so you should expect it. The severity of them will depend to a certain degree with the group you are in and the function that you serve. Try to gain an understanding of the issues before hiring by networking if possible. Hours can sometimes be long, but their infrastructure is expanding, and depending on the group, you may be able to enjoy your weekends much more frequently.

3.0
Sep 20, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Great technical talent, high performance expectations.

Cons

Prior managment of MPG had us going in a consistent positive ttrajectory, but like most old BRCMers, they were driven out. The current managment knows a lot less about the cellular market and changes their mind every week. It has become a joke. New management has finally realized that the old plans were correct, but we've lost 9 months.

4.0
Sep 13, 2011

Opportunity to do international-level engineering

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Engineering excellence - virtually everyone is a highly skilled engineer. Decent compensation and generally fair promotion and compensation culture. Opportunity to work on world-class projects.

Cons

Large international corporation, with many of the organisational politics that this brings. Centralised IT can be very impersonal. Many corporate policies are American-centric. All that said, these are not major drawbacks; Broadcom is by and large quite good and pleasant.

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