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 Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
May 21, 2012

Welcome to Veridian Dynamics

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great peers Decent Salary Your time at Broadcom will look great on a resume.

Cons

Quite simply, Broadcom isn't concerned with Corporate Services, Facilities, or Global Real Estate employees. They care about the opinions of other departments, who possess a much greater percentage of the overall corporate headcount. But the smaller percentage of employees and contractors working in Corporate Services are simply seen as replaceable and their viewpoints are frequently met with denial. Contractors are treated as "below" employees. They are continually given the impression that if they just hang in there, they might get hired on as an employee. As a company, HR doesn’t do exit interviews for contractors, so HR has no clue why they leave. Therefore, a savvy Manager or Director will fill his department with contractor staff and HR doesn’t mind because they are afraid to address Manager and Director deficiencies. There is far too much Corporate Politics that exists. For a fortune 500 Company, employees should be able to voice their discontent about an issue and find a solution within HR without fear of being "blackballed". Protections exist as published policy, but are not practiced. Those same great peers you work with are all desperately searching for any opportunity that comes even close to their current salary, then bailing ship. You are paid just slightly above an "industry average" for your qualifications, which makes it difficult to locate another company to work for. If my husband wasn’t out of work, I would immediately quit without even thinking about it.

1.0
Apr 23, 2011
Recommend
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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
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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.

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