Broadcom is a great company to work for if you are in the right team
Broadcom is a great company to work for if you are in the right team
You get to work on cutting-edge technology across business units. Great opportunity to learn new technology. Market leaders in networking chips and video codec chips for set-top boxes. Diversified product portfolio. Good compensation and stock options. Startup-like work culture and is team-dependent / manager-driven. Flexible timings. Good medical benefits for employees. Free lunch. Ethical company. Opportunities for internal transfer in case of downsizing. Good severance package if the company kicks you out.
Broadcom does not have great in-house R&D compared to peer semiconductor companies and has relied on acquisitions for growth. Many of these acquisitions have been disastrous.
Management decisions are driven by Wall Street, and you can be fired anytime if Wall Street expectations are not met.
Micromanagement by managers in certain teams creates artificial pressure on employees.
No team lunches or team outings, only work, work, work!
Very hard to get recognition for good work.
No per diem if traveling abroad.
Appraisal/compensation revision happens once a year.
- Develop strong in-house R&D for a sustainable product portfolio.
- Stop treating employees like garbage and recognize and reward good work.
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Senior Hardware Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJuly 12, 2025The interview had three rounds: * One behavioral round * One technical round with four interviewees * One round with HR The technical round included coding exercises and puzzle-solving. There was great emphasis on methodologies and scripting
Staff Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJune 1, 2025The interview process was simple and consisted of standard questions found on the internet. I was asked to design a rate limiter using the sliding window algorithm. The interviewer was friendly. HR took time to respond, but after all rounds, they rel
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaOctober 1, 2024This is about projects. The first DSA question was basic: return true if a number is repeated in an array, and false otherwise. The second question was about returning the count of repeated numbers. Maybe they would have asked more questions, but I r
