Broadcom reviews

3.3

50% would recommend to a friend

(6,358 total reviews)
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Hock E. Tan

60% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Broadcom has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 6,358 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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1.0
May 26, 2020

Demoralizing, nonexistent work-life balance

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Pros

RSU's are nice, company's stock performs well

Cons

Upper management hates headcount, they'll lay people off solely on the fact that they want the team smaller so they can push up the stock dividends a couple cents higher next quarter. They'll lay off talent and those that know the product best just to save a buck or two. Ends up killing the product line and they let the rest of the team go soon after. Management is heartless. Politics is rampant, you can't escape it. If upper management doesn't like your numbers, they don't care, you and your department are gone immediately, even if you have had a bunch of successful quarters and one doesn't do as well. They are also very greedy. They do not like to share in the bonuses or dividends, the less people getting those, the better. Broadcom has almost no employee loyalty. They expect long hours with no compensation or a thank you and no guarantee you'll keep your job. There's no work-life balance, I've worked every federal holiday this year and most weekends. I've had to drop out of classes in school just to keep my job. Otherwise, I'd be let go if anything were to take precedence over my job. Since working at Broadcom, I can't hardly take a day off, I almost have to ask for weekends off. I'm constantly having to reschedule doctor appointments because I can't get a break to go. I can't remember what it's like to work an 8 hour day, I've worked mostly 12-16. They hate work from home, they also hate remote employees. Anything they can do to eliminate that, even if it means laying off the best guys on your team, they'll do it. No communication from the top, management does not tell lower management or employees what they're thinking. Once they've made an instant, poorly thought out decision with no input from others, there's no changing it.

1.0
Jun 10, 2018

Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

Awesome location, great benefits, vibrant history, cutting edge tech

Cons

Hock tan is a vampire who sucked this company dry. 90% of the amazing engineers at this company left or were laid off and now its all about margins, very little rnd, nothing new, and a failed qcom buyout (thank god) hopefully this abomination of a company will die off now that the vampire hock tan couldnt take out qcom and the semi industry is fully consolidated. Don't work for this company if you want to work for a hitech company. This company changed its name and county 3x times in the last 3 years. Broadcom Corp - Brcm limited -> Brcm inc. Why did they keep the brcm name? Because avgo is a company that never did anything ever. They made passive rf front end prodcuts and got financing to leech and acquire better companies and strip them down. The current Broadcom Inc is a Frankenstein or Zombie with no brains to eat. Don't ever work here

2.0
Jun 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great coworkers, and colleagues Very sharp team, and focused on execution Immediate management is very capable

Cons

Senior management doesn't care about employees. And with Avago buying us, it will be even worse. For a CTO that is suppose to represent the collective engineering mindset, it's a huge discouragement when in all hands meetings, he repeatedly says we need to review our engineering staff and ensure we "curb engineering inflation. Come on, we're all engineers and not stupid. just say what you mean. You think U.S. employees are paid too much, and you want to reduce our compensation package and shift as much work overseas as possible. Calling this "curbing engineering inflation" is just insulting.

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