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A good but not great company

Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Broadcom for less than 1 year
August 26, 2008
Sunnyvale, California
4.0
RecommendsApproves of CEO
Pros

Innovative and state-of-the-art technology, talented and dedicated engineers to work with. Great cafeteria and nice gym.

Cons

Over-diversified product portfolio and over-featured products.

Advice to Management

The company has become bloated. Perhaps senior management has become too "kind." Everyone there knows the annual performance review is a joke because anyone seldom loses their job, regardless of how ineffective their work performance may be. Is the cost increase proportional to revenue or profit growth over the years? Have you thought of the GE or Cisco model of letting go the bottom ten percentile just to keep the company lean and focused? Would you ever take this company private and run it like KKR would?

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