Broadcom

High stock price makes stock plan attractive

No job security. Everyone is subject to layoff and replacement.

No work-life balance. The workload keeps increasing each time they get rid of some people and spread the work to remaining folks.

No career path. The CEO keeps the organization very flat, which means there is a very short career ladder without many titles to climb. Moving up takes a really long time.

You won't feel any confidence about a long-term career path, no matter how well you perform. There is no culture here, just cost-cutting. You can only focus on surviving the current year without getting laid off. This is designed by intention so everybody keeps their head down in the same position year over year.

The performance ranking rule is as heartless as it can be. Every group is given an underperform quota to meet, regardless of how the group performs. It forces managers to pick some folks as underperformers, even though they do not deserve such a ranking. This system is designed to force people out year over year. It also makes the rest of the folks get less recognition for how well they actually perform.

Come work for Broadcom if you just want valuable stocks and don't care how long you stay. If you want a serious career path, seek somewhere else.