Broadcom is a challenging place to work where much is expected from you, but the compensation makes it worth it. One is expected to put in a considerable number of extra hours, but it is recognized when the customer is pleased by the work of an individual. I was able to hone skills in new areas as well as apply my many years of experience to the tasks given. The best part of the job was working with those around me in the office, all top notch professionals.

Pros

Compensation, great talented coworkers

Cons

Long hours, somewhat stressful scheduling

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Pays good RSU but with less job security

R&D Engineer (Former Employee) - Bangalore - August 8, 2022

1. Pays overall good salary. Major salary is through RSUs, fixed component is less. 2. less or No job security. Believes in Fire and Hire policy.3. Works on latest tool and technologies. 4. Gives high end laptops and iphone to their employees.5. No tracking through swipe in and out6. Quite boring place with no fun activities at all. No time wastage. 7. Food at cafetaria is Average.8. No work from Home policy. Only Work from Office.9. Free transport through office bus.

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People are rude and mean

Machine Operator (Former Employee) - Fort Collins, CO - August 3, 2022

Working as an operator gave me a lot stress and anxiety I was never fully trained properly and had grown men who were my co workers yell and roll their eyes at me when asking for help good job on paper horrible culture and co worker experience

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Fun place to work and magement is excellent.

R&D Technician (Current Employee) - San Jose, CA - August 1, 2022

Fun place to work, work environment is easy to breath, friendly co-workers and excellent management. Feeling energized going to work, workload is self manage.

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Fun work but culture sucks

Operator (Former Employee) - Fort Collins, CO - July 22, 2022

Fun work but culture sucks . little room for moving up and people look down on you when your a noobie. only really pay attention to the top dogs of the place

Pros

hella break time

Cons

coworkers lol

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Standard big American company

Manufacturing Operator (Current Employee) - Fort Collins, CO - July 15, 2022

It's a pretty standard multinational American company. The benefits are better than you get at a smaller company at the expense of feeling like a line item on a spreadsheet. They're pretty good about promoting from within. They're very good at providing a very safe work environment. My only complaint really is that they should be more willing to let some terrible people go. Sometimes I feel like it's not possible for a bad employee to get fired, which hits the morale of the rest of us that have to carry the bad ones.

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Good place to learn and grow

Equipment Technician (Current Employee) - Fort Collins, CO - June 15, 2022

Good place to work. Culture here is very good from management to peers. Lots of moving parts. Promotion potential is very limited needs more upward mobility.

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High Demand, Low Flexibility

North America Lead - ESD Support (Former Employee) - Burlington, MA - June 9, 2022

Achieving goals is a priority while internally, there seems to be very little care for maintaining customer satisfaction. Little to no opportunity for advancement and work/life balance is a struggle. Management structure is lean and flat so if you do not have a good relationship with your immediate manager, you're going to be in a very difficult situation.

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Potential to be great, but held back by management.

Operator (Former Employee) - Fort Collins, CO - June 8, 2022

I worked at Broadcom as an operator. The shifts are 12 hours and that can be difficult at times, but the extra days off are also nice. My experience with Management/Supervisor was negative. Management definitely plays favorites and the culture and opportunities at this company reflect that. Supervisors take a lot of time off and some are not around the site as much as they should be. Your raises and opportunities for advancement are dependent on your Supervisor’s personal feelings and opinions, and not your experience or qualifications. Your reward for hard work and a job well done is more work and more responsibilities, even while understaffed. There was a wide belief that Supervision/Management did not have the team’s best interest as their intention. While this may not be the case with every area/supervisor, this was my personal experience. I believe the WSD Operations department would benefit a lot from more attention being paid to Supervisors and the morale and culture of the operators on their respective teams.

Pros

Days off, Discounted snacks and meals, Consistent schedule, Job is easy to learn, Long breaks, Good benefits

Cons

Poor management, Long hours, Favoritism, Toxic work environment at times, Benefits and rewards gradually taken away

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Good place to work

Quality Engineer (Current Employee) - Irvine, CA - May 24, 2022

Broadcom offers great compensation and flexible work hours. Co-workers and knowledgeable and friendly. Company emphasizes frugality in operating costs.

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Good place to grow

Software Engineer (Former Employee) - Plano, TX - May 21, 2022

They are very good at training new people and having patience with those that take more effort in preparing for perfection on the job. Direct management gives good feedback and is willing to help you grow.

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A place for you to earn money with no life

Engineer (Former Employee) - Penang - April 20, 2022

a typical day at work - fight and warwhat you learned - push and pressmanagement - shipment and shipmentworkplace culture - push and passthe hardest part of the job - work alonethe most enjoyable part of the job - money

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Broadcom doesn’t care about its employees

QA Engineer (Former Employee) - San Jose, CA - April 6, 2022

Broadcom is a mediocre employer. Upper management does not care about its employees and does not support individual professional development. Although technically they have a education reimbursement benefit, (up to $10,000) such requests are not approved. It seems as if they would rather have one stagnant in their role instead of investing what is considered chump change for a multi billion company, because despite the obvious benefits that go along with increasing one’s skillset, that would mean they would have to compensate the individual accordingly which they are too cheap to want to do. The only good things they offer is 401k matching and ESPP discount on its valuable stock. There is no company culture and it’s a total drag working here. They don’t even stock the break rooms with snacks/beverages like most other Silicon Valley tech employers do, so you’re either forced to bring your own food or go to their overpriced cafeteria which is only open until like 2pm. Also, despite the fact that most employees can perform their work remotely, they have required that everyone return to the office and monitors attendance. Overall this is a shady employer that regularly does lay offs, so if you do end up working here don’t expect any job security regardless of performance.

Pros

401k matching, Espp

Cons

Doesn’t care about employees or support professional development, no snacks or other useful amenities.

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Totaly business not employee oriented

Sr. Principal Analog Design Engineer (Former Employee) - San Jose, CA - February 17, 2022

No reliance on job security. You are just an asset for as long as needed. Bottom line is what drives everything. There could be interesting projects but the time pressure to deliver doesn't really leave any room to enjoy the creativity of the work. Stock is good, though right now.

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No roadmap

Staff Software Engineer (Current Employee) - Pune, Maharashtra - February 11, 2022

Worst company to work. No roadmap. Only RSU component is good however rest of the things are worst i would recommend not to join the company. Lot of politics

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The only thing that matters is the stock price

Manager (Current Employee) - TX - January 30, 2022

Awful culture only focused on the bottom line.. no innovation and only boring software productsNew people coming into engineering at the ICB4 and 5 level will get very nice comp packages especially RSU

Pros

good RSUs if you are new to the company, health insurance very good

Cons

no wfh even during pandemic, spreadsheets and tracking for everything, old boys club from big blue.. lots of favoritism

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Compensation is high, professionalism is low

Senior Verification Engineer (Current Employee) - San Jose, CA - December 23, 2021

Technically not doing, can work 3-4 Hrs a day but compensation is high. Work home balance is good. no real career opportunity.if your goal is to get somewhere with your career go to other place

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Slow and as exciting as a turtle.

Content Developer (Current Employee) - San Jose, CA - December 16, 2021

Understaffed, poor management, no chance for advancement. Poor communication of company/division goals and objectives as they relate to everyone's job.Differing opinions are not welcomed.

Pros

Bonus, some stock

Cons

Disorganized, no good long term planning, understaffed.

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They don’t respect your time off

Account Manager (Former Employee) - San Jose, CA - December 15, 2021

Dont allow work from home. Do t care if you took vacation expect you to he on call 24/7. Terrible input from management little to no direction on how to accomplish tasks

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You are just a number

Anonymous (Former Employee) - Anonymous - November 9, 2021

Good benefits, seems like good ol boys club, it really depends on who your manager is. I had a good manager but the company is all about making more money and doesn’t care about their employees, you are just a number.

Pros

Pay decent, good benefits

Cons

Too many to list

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Worst culture

Software Engineer (Current Employee) - Hyderabad, Telangana - October 22, 2021

Worst work culture, wonder how managers here with no talent. This is first place seeing skill less managers. always wonder, how they became managers. may be buttered their managers. until fresh talent replace this junk, Broadcom will keep loosing creditability. Hyderabad branch is worst in politics. they got talent in how to secure their jobs with no talent. do not join this company. you will feel bad later.

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