Laid off from Broadcom.

Previous rounds

Broadcom layoff history

If Broadcom cut your job, there's a fair chance its fullest public account sits in a notice the company filed with a state. Finding your work described that way is a cold thing, and none of the paperwork makes the loss easier to carry. Broadcom gave California notice on 17 October 2025 covering 247 employees at its Hillview Avenue site in Palo Alto, one office in Stanford Research Park, and the state's report sets the separation date at 19 December 2025 and marks the layoff permanent. The notice itself named the jobs, 26 inside sales representatives, 25 client services consultants, 23 end-user field app engineers, 21 software engineers in research and development, and 113 end-user sales engineers. The company's vice president for human resources wrote that this wouldn't close the whole facility and would affect only certain employees selected for layoff. If you were in that group, your job title is sitting on a public document.

What all of this cost turns up in the annual reports. Employee termination costs alone ran to $1,510 million in fiscal 2024, then $428 million the following year, inside total restructuring charges of $1,787 million and then $597 million, with the unpaid balance down to $76 million at the close of fiscal 2025. That note says the work began in connection with the VMware merger, to integrate the acquired business, align the workforce and improve efficiencies, and that Broadcom has substantially completed it. Headcount moves the same way on the same filings. The company counted about 37,000 employees worldwide in November 2024 and about 33,000 twelve months on, roughly 4,000 fewer across that fiscal year, against about 20,000 before the VMware deal. Treat the 4,000 as a net change rather than a layoff count, since it takes in hiring and departures of every kind.

The executives put numbers on the program too. Hock Tan told investors in June 2024 that Broadcom had incurred about $2 billion of restructuring and integration costs year to date, and that it had integrated SG&A across the entire platform and eliminated redundant functions. He said spending at VMware had come down to $1.6 billion in the quarter from $2.3 billion before the acquisition, and that he expected it to keep falling toward $1.3 billion and to settle near $1.2 billion once integration was finished. Money gets measured far more finely than people do in this record, and severance is the sharpest example. The one filed document that sets any floor here is the merger agreement, which ran for twelve months from closing and held severance for continuing employees at no less than the level VMware's own plans already gave them. Those plans sit in a disclosure letter that never became part of the filing, which leaves no terms on record.

That floor came with a date attached. Broadcom completed the VMware acquisition on 22 November 2023, so the twelve-month commitment had run out by its own terms well before the October 2025 notice. No cited filing supplies severance terms for that later round. If you're holding a separation offer, the useful reading is your own copy, for the payment it names, any release it asks you to sign, any deadline for answering, and how it treats health coverage. For anyone whose exit landed in the twelve months after that close, the VMware severance in force before the merger is a number worth comparing against.

California publishes these filings, which is what makes any of it checkable. The state wants written notice at least 60 days before a mass layoff, plant closure or relocation, with copies to the Employment Development Department, the local workforce development area, the chief elected official of the local government affected, and the affected employees themselves, and the requirement generally starts at 75 or more employees. On this one, 17 October to 19 December is 63 days. Our tracker holds 24 all-time Broadcom filings, 1 filing covering 247 jobs since the start of 2025, and none in 2026. Pull your own notice, set it beside the state's copy, and check that the dates, the site and the job title match what you were told in the room.

Reporting on previous Broadcom layoff rounds

• October 2025, Palo Alto · Broadcom gave California notice on 17 October 2025 covering 247 employees at its Palo Alto site on Hillview Avenue, and the state's report sets the separation date at 19 December 2025, flags the layoff permanent and places it in Santa Clara County. The eliminated roles run to 26 inside sales representatives, 25 client services consultants, 23 end-user field app engineers, 21 software engineers in research and development, and 113 end-user sales engineers.

• First month after the November 2023 close · The first month after the close produced WARN notices totaling 2,838 announced cuts in eight states, 1,267 of them in California and 577 in Austin, and the company named no job titles at all.

  The merger agreement set a floor for the twelve months after closing, requiring severance benefits that stayed no less favorable than VMware's own plans. No amount on record.

How Broadcom's layoffs compare to other companies

Today's Broadcom started as Avago Technologies, which bought the original Broadcom in 2015, took its name and kept buying, and VMware was the deal that closed in November 2023. A serial acquirer leaves a paper record, and for this one the numbers that matter sit in the restructuring note and the annual reports.

What to do after being laid off from Broadcom

1. File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Broadcom's biggest hubs: California, Texas. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
2. Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Broadcom's hub states run: California, Texas, and every other state is here.
3. Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
4. Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
5. Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.