Looking on LinkedIn there is loads of Broadcom / VMW jobs coming up. I left as a Senior Technical Support Engineer and I am thinking of applying to go back in.
Genuine question, how's life inside now? Would it be worth going back in
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vmware had lot of time pass directors, senior directors that ruined once the great company. after avgo acquired it, lot of cost cutting. avgo style.
If you like working for a dictator, it’s a great place!
Leave your self respect at the door and be sure to bring the magnificent leader your grandma’s wedding ring as the obligatory gift for joining.
Soon you will be ready to immigrate to North Korea.
I agree with what others have said. It's dirty and lacks just about everything even an average modern office would have. If you return, it's not an environment where you'll produce your best work.
On the bright side, nobody cares! (that it's not your best work)
There are no office supplies.
Pens? NONE.
Dry erase markers? NONE.
Staples, staplers? NONE.
For men, Urinals don't flush properly. Many bathrooms smell like movie bus stations look.
Carpets are dirtier than the vmware years.
Doors continually breaking: badge readers stop working, or handicapped access broken.
Doors randomly converted to 'exit only' for months, then back to bidirectional.
6/10 5%
Do not think about it, Broadcom still squeezing the cow til it gets depleted.
Well, my answer to this question is: having a job is better than having no job. I have been away from Broadcom for 1.5 years, and because it’s not easy to find a job, I have to remain unemployed till now.
Just find a job first.
Inside, everything's sorta low budget, dingey and in need of replacement soon. The lighting, vending machine, carpet, furniture, copier, etc. It's hard to describe. Like going back in time a few decades. Or working all day in a second rate convenience store. Like I said, hard to describe, but you're soooo happy to leave when the whistle blows. Some of the compensation is good, as many point out, just don't forget you'll be spending 1/3 of your life in here though.
How is life?
Pretty bad - if you are working for Hock Tan
Said in 2005: "You're going to run a software business with no internal IT? Good luck with that!" and 20 years later every software company outsources/offshores their biz process IT depts. Sorry man, even call centers will be replaced by AI agents, call it progress or destruction per your choice but it's happenin.
@1aa you’re going to run a software business with no internal support?
Good luck with that !
Don't know when you left but 2 main points to consider for you are:
1) BRCM is a very very different place than VMW. If you loved VMW you will probably hate BRCM and vice-versa, as they're almost polar opposites culturally.
2) Support is not the place to pick - it's being sourced out to partners/aggregators more and more, and the support role is no longer considered "premium R&D roles" (i.e., top pay and stock) because of that. It's a matter of time before there is no internal support. Try product engineering instead.
The matrix always gives a second chance to escape
How is life?
Broadcom is a toxic cesspool. Who wants to work in a place like that.
I guess everyone has their price.
Now that we know you can be bought, how much to pay you to lick HTs ahole?
Work is good in Broadcom
20x less customers 10x more revenues
Less work
The big customers are pretty entrenched and d-mb and they really have no choice. So not that you have to try hard to retain them
Probably our pedos have a deal with their pedos
It's all a matrix
Rejoining Broadcom?
Hilarious. I guess some folks enjoy living miserable and desperate lives.
I sold all staaks at 400 and don't need to work for 5 years
Totally worth a shot
The world will end before then
It is not bad, you have to close a certain number of cases in a 2-month period, and you have to be more responsive. Sev-1 rotation is now for 2 weeks and mandatory.