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0 pointsMrDrMcCoy2y ago0 comments

100%. I still have contacts from when I worked there, and It's worse than feared. Everything is on fire and all the best engineering/support talent has either left or is leaving. Broadcom is not only raising prices, but is set to deliver considerably worse products. It makes me sad, because it was once an incredible place to work. Now I recommend that people avoid them like the plague.

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kelnos2y ago· 1 in thread

Incredible place to work or not, I recall at least as far back as 2004 they were terrible from a B2B support standpoint. Impossible to get help with buggy drivers, everything opaque and poorly documented.

And don't get me started on trying to get their chipsets working on Linux. Up until recently, it was nearly as bad as nvidia's garbage. Even now, I'm not sure if everything is well supported; I've avoided BRCM wifi like the plague for years now.

Angostura2y ago

I think the commenter may have been referring to VMWare rather than Broadcom.

junon2y ago

This is indeed sad. VMware was some of the best at one point. In my opinion, it still sort of is.

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