Thread regarding Broadcom Corp. layoffs

The real outsourcing threat is India not China

I have been with classical broadcom for around 10 years, and I can tell you jobs are moving to India for sure. There are some teams in China but I see those shrinks like here in US, they are mostly there to serve local customers (sustaining) and don't really own core development. In last couple of years, I have seen PM, core hardware design, core software, QA (basically whole project) all moved to India though and the development teams grow to 2~3 times larger than US team and now own most promising projects.

I would not care if Indian teams are doing a better job there and being effective, if they can do same job at a lower cost, no complains here. But that's not what I heard from people around me (including GM, mid-low level managers), I feel it's mostly driven by political reasons other than what's good for company.

The mid/exec level managers in classical broadcom (especially those came from India) relentless and shamelessly push for outsourcing to India even though the team there are not experienced and often deliver sub-par quality work. My only conclusion is they are trying to benefit their own positions in company (more Indians more secure for themselves) and this must be just an Indian culture to hire their own people whenever possible. An Indian face will certainly score you 50% higher when you are interviewing with some manager with India origin. Sometimes I hope I can tan my skin to improve my chance.

Given more Indian managers are moving up the corp ladder (some of them are decent guys), I would expect this wave to continue. Most IT companies (especially those in shrinking industry like semi) will be dominant-ted by Indian engineers either here or back in India..

For China, I think the real threat is the local companies that grow large enough to compete with US globally. Whoever fittest will survive, that's just how capitalism works though.

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Post ID: @OP+HcDvHG2

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Do you think there is no way to validate the numbers? Go to work day and list the employees based on locations, you will know.

Regarding new hirings, 94 openings available in America out of total 131 openings in Broadcom. To check the numbers login to taleo and verify it by yourself.

Americans are the greediest people, how much favoritism you show, still they are unhappy. They will not stop until they leave everybody with nothing.

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Post ID: @1wxtu+HcDvHG2

That's true. Taiwan Teams are hiring too.

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Post ID: @15dvh+HcDvHG2

The truth/war theory is most likely right. Just no way to validate the numbers.

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Post ID: @enjl+HcDvHG2

Just after the merger of Broadcom and Avago, engineering strength in California is 6000+ and rest of US is 4000+ and the strength in India in 2700+. And see the bogeyman that these people are talking.

Truth is the first causality in war. Truth will be destroyed by those who want to start war.

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Post ID: @egwn+HcDvHG2

Indian potential has looks great on power point slides for a while now, but never delivers, and I don't expect it will be anytime soon.

Maybe executives and wall Street want you to believe its potentials to justify their outsourcing policy, but don'the fall for it.

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Post ID: @lxx+HcDvHG2

They say that biggest potential for business growth is in India/Far East/Asia. therefore, it makes sense to move business in that direction and take advantage of labor resources there and serve customers more locally.

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Post ID: @ooz+HcDvHG2

OP I agree with you 1000% - you nailed it

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