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Broadcom Headquarters & offices · Palo Alto, California
Broadcom · Palo Alto, California
A Palo Alto headquarters on land leased from Stanford — with stock when you join and stock awards every year.
The Hillview Avenue campus, the benefits and who works here — then the pay — and how a company that grew out of Hewlett-Packard, Bell Labs and a string of acquisitions ended up in Palo Alto.
- 4.1%voluntary attrition, FY2025
- 57%of employees in R&D
- $378,281median employee pay
- $1.9Mrevenue per employee
Sources: Form 10-K FY2025 · Proxy statement 2026 · Broadcom job postings (2026)
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THE HEADQUARTERS CAMPUS · HILLVIEW AVENUE, PALO ALTO
Low buildings, bridges and gardens on Stanford land
Broadcom's headquarters is at 3421 Hillview Avenue in Palo Alto — the street where VMware, which Broadcom acquired in 2023, has its campus. Broadcom's Palo Alto property sits on land leased from Stanford University until 2046. These photos show VMware's Hillview campus in 2008.
- 3421 Hillview Ave
- 561,000 sq ft in Palo Alto
- Stanford land lease to 2046
- Formerly VMware HQ
More of the Hillview Avenue campus (2008)
Elsewhere
Facts: Form 10-K FY2025 (cover, Item 2) · Proxy statement 2026. Photos: Wikimedia Commons (taken in 2008, when the campus was VMware's headquarters), credited on each photo.
Palo Alto
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | 3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 |
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 cover · Proxy statement 2026 · See them on the map ↓
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Item 2 (facilities over 100,000 sq ft)
Benefits (United States)
Medical, dental and vision plans.
401(k) with company matching.
Employee Stock Purchase Program.
New-hire equity plus annual equity awards.
Discretionary annual bonus.
Company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time.
Employee Assistance Program.
Follows applicable laws for paid family leave.
Source: Broadcom job postings (2026), “Compensation and Benefits”
Why so few leave: what Broadcom reports
Below the technology-industry benchmark Broadcom cites (Aon, 2025).
Engineering and technical people are, in Broadcom's words, “a critical asset”.
Postings offer a new-hire equity grant and annual equity awards, plus a discretionary bonus.
An Employee Stock Purchase Program for U.S. employees.
Retirement plan with company matching.
Broadcom measures engagement by attrition and employee feedback.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Employees · Broadcom job postings R026818 / R027323 (2026)
Who works here
employees (Nov 2, 2025)
voluntary attrition, FY2025
in research and development
of history, from Bell Labs and HP
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Item 1
Pay at Broadcom
The CEO's reported pay was 543 times this; using his annualized award, Broadcom gives a supplemental ratio of 93 to 1.
Source: Proxy statement 2026
Source: Broadcom job postings R026875 and R027323 (2026). Bonus and equity are on top.
Broadcom doesn't publish pay by age. Pay ranges in job postings are the closest official number.
Compare Broadcom with: NVIDIA
Office history: from San Jose to Hillview Avenue
- 60+ years Roots in Bell Labs and Hewlett-Packard
Broadcom traces its history back more than 60 years to AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent and Hewlett-Packard, and grew through acquisitions including LSI, Broadcom Corporation, Brocade, CA, Symantec's enterprise security business and VMware.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Item 1
Broadcom Corporation's headquarters, 2007 — one of the companies combined into today's Broadcom · Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2018 Headquartered in San Jose
Broadcom Inc.'s fiscal 2018 annual report gives San Jose, California as its headquarters.
Source: Form 10-K FY2018, Item 2
Broadcom HQ, San Jose, June 2019 · Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2023 VMware joins
Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware on November 22, 2023. VMware's campus is on Hillview Avenue in Palo Alto.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 (VMware acquisition date)
VMware headquarters entrance, 3401 Hillview Ave, 2008 · BrokenSphere / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - Today 3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto
Broadcom's filings now give its headquarters as 3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto. The company's 561,000 sq ft of Palo Alto property is on land leased from Stanford until 2046.
Source: Form 10-K FY2023–FY2025 · Proxy statement 2026
VMware's Hillview campus, 2008 · BrokenSphere / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
| Annual report | HQ space (sq ft) | m² | As described |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-K FY2025 | 6,465,985 | 600,709 | All owned + leased sites over 100,000 sq ft |
| 10-K FY2025 | 561,000 | 52,119 | Palo Alto property on Stanford land |
Map: how the headquarters moved
About 23 km up the Peninsula: from San Jose to the Hillview Avenue campus in Palo Alto, near Stanford.
- 1 · FY2018San Jose (pin: Broadcom's Ridder Park Drive site)
- 2 · today3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto
Addresses: Form 10-K · Locations: OpenStreetMap · Basemap © Esri
What Broadcom does
Broadcom designs chips for networking, data centers, broadband, wireless and storage, and sells infrastructure software — including VMware — to large companies.
Two segments: semiconductor solutions and infrastructure software.
Where the money came from · net revenue by segment, FY2025
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Net revenue by segment
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$13.2B → $63.9B
Fiscal years end in late October / early November. Net revenue: SEC XBRL. Employees: only the FY2025 count could be confirmed for this page.
Chief executives
President and Chief Executive Officer.
Today's Broadcom Inc. combines Avago Technologies and Broadcom Corporation, among others.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · Form 10-K FY2025
Hear it from the CEO
Broadcom: questions people ask
Where is Broadcom's headquarters?
3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California. In fiscal 2018 it was in San Jose.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 and FY2018
How many people work at Broadcom?
About 33,000 employees as of November 2, 2025; 57% are in research and development.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025
What is Broadcom's turnover rate?
Voluntary attrition was about 4.1% in fiscal 2025.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025
How much do Broadcom employees make?
The median employee's total compensation was $378,281 in fiscal 2025. 2026 postings list $74,000–$118,800 for an R&D software engineer in Plano and $143,800–$230,000 for a principal hardware engineer in San Jose.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · Broadcom job postings
Does Broadcom own VMware?
Yes. Broadcom completed the acquisition on November 22, 2023; VMware is part of its infrastructure software segment.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025
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