Broadcom reviews

3.3

50% would recommend to a friend

(6,353 total reviews)
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Hock E. Tan

61% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Broadcom has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 6,353 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 Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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4.0
Aug 18, 2020

Good place to work

Recommend
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Pros

- Decent stock options - Division leadership is aggressive in promoting innovation

Cons

- The response to COVID by Broadcom globally is a bad joke. Essentially all workers are considered "essential" and must work shifts in the office. In the Prague office, we all have access to the VPN and can work safely from home without any significant

2.0
Jul 1, 2020

It's all about the money...

Recommend
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Pros

- Great comp - good base pay, everyone gets annual bonus plus stock equity (RSUs not options) - Stock is growing - looking forward to when I will be a shareholder (and not an employee) - Minimal management structure (both a pro and con)

Cons

- Zero corporate culture - just a collection of acquired businesses expected to drive high-margin revenue - which is OK, but there is no corporate "Broadcom" message/theme/culture other than maximizing revenue at extremely high margins - No investment in employee career growth or opportunities to advance - Inflexible, often draconian HR policies - Don't care about customer experience or customer sat - especially with "low revenue" accounts - Everything is done on the extreme cheap - Implemented aggressive return to office policies during covid-19 - even though many positions can work from home. Now tracking employees via forced smart phone app on corporate phones. Really???

3.0
Aug 16, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

I will speak for classic Broadcom. Broadcom felt like a startup, investing in innovation and the people who make the company great and profitable. Unfortunately, everything has changed since Avago bought Broadcom. We still have a gym and great people. They are all going away though. Broadcom paid top dollars, work/life balance was second to none, my managers paid attention to everything that I was working on, and everyone felt like part of the family. If the M&A did not happen, I would happily work until I retire at Broadcom. I have 30 years left until my retirement, so that says a lot about how much I loved working here.

Cons

New company is all about profit. I guess that's what the shareholders care about the most, but as an employee, and as a professional in the data field, this is a sign of death. What used to be a very data-driven company as turned into meeting quotas and doing things with intuition. People are leaving left and right, and management does not care. Like I said, it's all about profit, so the core business that made Broadcom what it is today is all moving over to Asia. Very unfortunate and sad to see.

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