Broadcom

Does the following sound like you?

• Like writing code in a fast-paced, yet laid-back atmosphere.
• Understand intuitively that software process is over-rated.
• Appreciate that the very best way to do unit testing is during system integration.
• Still learning programming but believe that any language invented after C will never work and is unnecessary.
• Think it's awesome that so many of your colleagues are hardware engineers trying their hand at writing product code.

Broadcom is a hardware company that now finds itself with a large and growing software problem.

If you know software, then you know that building a software system with 200K lines of code is much, much different than building 20 systems that are 10K lines each. It's like trying to build a modern skyscraper when you've only built garden sheds.

Willful ignorance of the software problems faced by Broadcom. That is the fundamental problem.