[sdiy] Dialog buys Atmel

[Barry Klein]

Of course you probably know that Broadcom is supposed to be moving/consolidating eventually to a huge facility down here that is under construction.
I’ve talked with a couple Broadcom engineers at IoT meetup groups that indicate though that they feel their jobs are threatened – thus they are working on small startups.
Lots of jobs listed on their site -  they told me they think they will not be filled.  Whatever, I didn’t do RF ASIC/phy chip development work so zero interviews so far.
Atmel has had some job postings down here – probably at an acquisition of their own.  Anyone know what company it was?
Really angers me that the media is portraying the job market as best it has been since 2008 while thousands are being canned right now (WD, HP, Qualcom, Seagate, others...).
I think they list Lyft and Uber taxi jobs in the numbers...

Barry


From: Justin Herrmann 
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 10:10 AM
To: Neil Johnson ; Michael Zacherl 
Cc: synth-diy 
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Dialog buys Atmel


>> while Broadcom is currently being incorporated into Avago …
>> Which was a much larger fish to swallow than LSI in 2013.

>Although only _after_ Broadcom reduced their headcount by several
>thousand. Last year in fact. June 2nd - I remember the day well....

>Neil

After Avago bought LSI, they eliminated a lot of redundant staff, and closed down some of the smaller LSI locations. My last day was March 21 of this year. They gave us (HBA board design engineers) a 9 month notice, so we could hand off our projects smoothly (kinda).

Justin



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