It was revealed that Broadcom is being super generous with the bonus this year!
Normally, Broadcom ranks all employees 1 to 3. 1 is exceeding expectations, 2 is fine, 3 is needs improvement. And normally only 1s and 2s get the 100% bonus, but not this year. Broadcom is ranking everyone as a 2 this time, for bonus purposes.
So all you super hard workers? Good job su-kers! You get exactly the same bonus as the "rest and vest" crew that you have to work so hard to cover for. And you rank 3 employees who coast and do as little as possible? No problem, here's your bonus just like anyone else.
It has been explained to me that this year we are lucky. Broadcom is treating everyone the same this year, and it's next year that they are going to really crack down and rank us correctly. So they went easy on us this year. This is them going easy on us. Next year is going to be a lot tougher.