Broadcom

Plenty of opportunity to learn and explore areas of technical interest.

Tools, equipment, and access to labs are all excellent.

High-quality engineering team.

Decent recruiting process.

Several internal opportunities to explore technical and managerial interests.

Ego-driven management contributes to long-term weaknesses in competitive abilities in key technical and business areas.

Maniacal focus on patent generation results in the production of several useless and redundant activities in the technology creativity process.

Unnecessarily hierarchical organizational structure for a company of this size and scope, as compared to others of similar size in the semi-world. This results in bureaucratic inefficiency when it comes to having certain routine tasks executed.

Managers should be willing to learn not only from their staff but also from outside. There is no need to hire from outside. Just hire and promote those from inside who have a professional outlook to management, use the most modern management tools, and can listen and take advice from people within their team and from those outside as well.