But some will stay up to a year. Many will leave soon

The cost of living is very low......It's not that bad....

Watch out! It's time for back stabbing...Low blows....to keep your position. Avago will be looking for people with attitudes.......................

Hearing that transition timelines have been determined and will be communicated Jan 11. Hold on to your nuts boys and girls.

I pass by it daily. Is BRCM really gonna use all of this campus or are there plans to lease part of it out ? Seems too big for an Avago division now. I also heard the rumor that Avago plans on changing the name to BRCM ? ex-BRCMer...

From what I gather from folks around here, there one in three might face the axe. Avago and its high margin business strategy pushes most of the work to low cost countries like India and they are moving their headquarters from US to Singapore... — read more 

What is the likelihood of Broadcom layoffs in Irvine in 2016? Please let me know if you have any information.

Yes brcm IT would be most affected. Teams here are very much considering major parts to be outsourced & some to be completely taken off. Expect deal to be finalized by end of Oct.

Most of the current IT team may get laid off as Avago believes in outsourcing to India based based vendors at cheap cost instead of maintaining internal team. Also Broadcom ERP is still very unstable so post merger they may scrap the whole system and... — read more 

dear Sirs: Does anyone know how much overlap there are between Broadcom's and Avago's PHY Products? I work on the Broadcom Optical Ethernet PHY Prodcuts for the HSIP group and am worried about the Layoff and losing the Green Card Application. Thank... — read more 

To the potential employers or whoever comes across resumes from QCOM engineers applying to positions with your companies, please do not hire these guys or find reasons to disqualify them during the interviewing process. All of them have enough "f*ck... — read more 

So there's rumors circulating that Hock Tan and Avago is working quickly to try to get the acquisition this year instead of next year. The motivation of closing this year is so that nexst year's Broadcom bonus usually paid in Jan/Feb won't end up... — read more 

Check the link https://www.thelayoff.com/emulex/post/5995047224868864

Are the job listings posted for Broadcom real? I was laid off at another big OC company and applied - no contact although admittedly I'm not a perfect match for what I applied for.

after the acquisition of Emulex, Avago let go a bunch of people from Emulex. Get ready, guys!

Does anyone know how our 2015 severance packages are structured - thank you in advance

2500 let go last summer. Most of the employees headed for the unemployment line are involved in baseband chip production. Another 250 will be purged from admin positions, such as sales, HR, and other administrative positions. An undisclosed number of... — read more 

Where are the details re 2014 cuts?

It's kind of simple like that, Broadcom is not unique in this though - let's see what 2014 brings.

this never stops, i heard they are thinking about sending additional 40 jobs overseas

You never know, but it seems that better days are coming to BRCM

THis Friday will be bad

Confirming, NJ is annihilated

looking to recruit talent working specifically with semiconductor/sensors. Will revisit page..please post linkedin link. thank you.

approximately 25 out of 100 in NJ gone!

There you go - not sure if anyone can be more specific: "Broadcom is initiating widespread layoffs from its LTE and modem design teams both in the U.S. and overseas, according to sources familiar with the situation. The move comes just days after the... — read more 

what is total size of layoff?

What areas?

Layoffs today, 4 let go

Any news?