Almost 6 years since Broadcom’s acquisition of CA Technologies
For those of you who remain with Broadcom what are your takeaways?
Mine are …
Compensation has been amazing (obviously with skyrocketing stock price) and generous bonuses.
Franchises are run pretty lean and efficiently but lack depth and specializations that used to exist at CA like swat, services and other special teams.
Teams are too scattered to make office collaboration feasible unless you happen to have a significant footprint of coworkers colocated together. Most offices are just random fragments of teams on G-Chat and Zoom with their far flung teammates.
There is zero culture at Broadcom other than what teams build themselves. It’s an adjustment but people seem ok with it.
Managers are less engaged at Broadcom than at CA but with high compensation people tend to manage themselves pretty efficiently.
It seems to be that about 50% of Broadcom employees work from home making Hock Tan’s messaging around the subject head scratchingly inconsistent such that he claims only a few “lucky privileged” people WFH and that’s just not the reality.
Broadcom’s internal IT systems and platforms are run very well. It’s pretty scary how ruthlessly efficient they fan onboard an acquisition.
Lastly. Something just doesn’t “feel” quite right working at Broadcom. Maybe it’s because the company is a collection of acquisitions. Something feels “off” - like there’s no company identity. Like being in a foreign place and missing home. It’s just a sense. There’s nothing inherently bad about my day to day experience as a Broadcom employee but something just doesn’t feel right.
Overall it’s fine. It’s just a little weird.
I’d like to hear from Symantec folks too.