principal engineer - Anonymous employee Broadcom Employee Review

5.0
Sep 9, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

very challenge tasks from variety of projects. The engineer also has a of freedoms to plan and exercise the priorities unless there is conflict on project management. Principal engineers are also expect to have mentor-ship to junior engineers, at the same time, junior engineers can help principal engineers to carry out some works,

Cons

in general, the workload is high, and also expected to work overtime, or work at home for extra hours. the responsibility is critical so that the work pressures is high as well.

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Cons

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