Broadcom Reviews 

Trying to get access to VMware download for retrieving VMRC (from download link in vCenter) and end on broadcom.com main page. Not able to find any info on this site about vmware.
Login with the migrated account, show no products.
Support says, only if we have an active contract.
As we also need an upgrade, support give email address to renewals hotline, but address dosn't exist.
Trying to enter a sales request, show no VMware "Product family", so not able to send a request to prober instance.
This is worst migration experience I have ever experienced.
Their website is totally useless.
Support - not existing!!

-Google a VMware problem.
-Get a bunch of links to threads on VMware Communities.
-Click any of them, hoping to find an answer to your problem.
-Broadcom: "Nope. Here's the Broadcom community front page"
-Search the Broadcom site for the same search string, and get no results.

Think of consequences of this for everyone.

Lost all licenses after vmware broadcom migration. Not able to get in contact with their support.

New site is full of bugs and doesnot have a clear overview of where to go now.

Can't migrate from VMWare to Broadcoms portal, and glitches when going to support bot.
Can't get a refund on my VMWare Purchase last month, and they just now made it free. Waste of money they have not offered to compensate for, I will not be using VMWare or Broadcom software in the future.

I have to agree with the other poor reviews. For years I have used VMware Workstation Pro 16 on a Linux/Kubuntu box. It will not install on Kubuntu 24.04. That may be an OS problem, not a Broadcom problem. So then I tried to download Workstation Pro 17, but the website times out instantly. That is most definitely a Broadcom problem. So here I am, a potential customer trying to buy something from a vendor, and the vendor makes it impossible. That is a Broadcom problem.

I have also tried getting online and telephone support. Telephone support is not available unless one already has a case number. That is a Broadcom problem. Online chat is broken; it is not possible to reach an agent. That, too, is a Broadcom problem.

Lots of problems, no solutions.

VirtualBox is looking better and better.

Horrible downloading experience.
Made an account, couldn't even sign in. I'm trying to download VMWare but cannot due to the horrible put together site. Nothing on that site works, requires you to make an account on their site to download VMWare.
0/5 star if I could

Really poor customer experience.

1) Raised a simple request to confirm compatibility with a new Operating System version. Their documentation from Symantec was still dated 2016 and had end of life Operating Systems listed. Over a week later and the engineering team has still been unable to confirm which versions of Red Hat and indeed Apache the Symantec product will work with. It is as if all development and maintenance of Symantec products stopped when Broadcom took them over.

2) Have a separate open issue with Broadcom whilst trying to log in to view my support ticket. I am constantly presented with an invalid token, please try logging into Okta message. I spoke to one support person this morning who didn't know what to do and so she hung up on me. The second person also didn't know what to do but did raise a support call for me. There has been no further correspondence from 2nd or 3rd line support since.

3) We also have a problem with a Symantec AV engine which is periodically crashing when updates are applied. The suggested workaround from Broadcom actually broke the application and had to be regressed. We are another week on and Broadcom have struggled to offer anything resembling an action plan to try and resolve the problem.

The recent acquisition of VMWare doesn't bode well I suspect for the millions of customers who rely on VMWare as their virtualisation provider of choice.

fail to download software and cannot link to the software I ordered with vmware

Completely unacceptable. As a valued VMware customer, our experience with Broadcom has been extremely poor since the migration. The support site takes an eternity to load products, and we're unable to download anything from our own product lines. There hasn't been any quality assurance checks, making this the most problematic migration we've encountered, causing significant delays to our project timeline. Our request to escalate this matter to management was denied, as they were occupied with other matters. It's surprising that management is involved in technical issues at Broadcom. The manager who declined our request was Mohan Adari.

Worst Download Experience of all time
Since the VMWare migration to Broadcom nothing works

Received 8 e-mails that my "registration is approved" but never signed up for this.

I put a curse on the management
To get into car accidents every month. Their employee Chandra Varanasi has been raping women and threaten to run over them with his van for over 10 years still they support him. It will not stop until he is fire. Good luck! 🤢

Support/kundeservice er komplet ubrugelige og gør intet for at hjælpe.

I'd give 0 stars if I could. They're unresponsive, don't follow through and will leave you hanging. I don't know how they run a business like this. Extremely frustrating

I work in the IT world since early 90's years.
Rarely, pardon, I never dealt with such a bad customer service as Broadcom's one.
I come from Symantec days, when support was really great, careful, skilled, timely. Then came Broadcom days, with Symantec security products migrated to them. Great products sold to the worst company ever in terms of customer care and customer satisfaction.
I cannot talk about Broadcom products themselves, I don't own any, if not integrated components (NICs and so on) in servers and PCs.
But support is a key component when choosing a solution in place of another.
After about an year of personal experience with Broadcom support, I can tell without any reservations or doubts that it is the worst support I ever dealt with.

Cases are closed without your approval or notification, techs are arrogants, bad educated, they (and this is really bad) hang up the phone if they are not able to explain, or if you, after days that you repeat, hopelessy, same questions or raise concerns (you can't be blamed for), insist for a solution. Since the cases creation you get a first answer after two days... Then you have to pray. No more answers. So you are obliged to close the case and open a new one, and so on.
Moreover, their english is so bad. Written and spoken. I'm not talking about grammar, I am italian and I make many mistakes, but I do my best to be undesrstood. When they write it seems they do it in a hurry, when they speak, they do it in a hurry, the pronunciation is often ununderstandable.

It's a pity. Symantec products was really good. But I feel that them will be left on their own until End of Life cycle or when, plausibly, all the customers will have migrated to other solution.

Symantec's era has reached its end.

As I told you over the phone I have been dealing with this issue from the very beginning of the migration process in October 2020. That is when I received the first email to log into the portal and was not able to log in. Since then I have had mostly terrible customer service being sent to places and people that had nothing to do with the migration and did not know what to do. I have 20 emails with no help that I was able to save when I had to change computers. The first one saved was dated 11/5/2020 and the issues started in October. All I seemed to get for help was I needed to do something the system would not let me do. And a lot of I don’t know what I’m doing. I have been hung up on several times because the people that have answered the call for support do not seem to have an ability to communicate without speaking a mile a minute and when I try to get a word in they get upset because I ask them to repeat something they said, that I could not understand. It is difficult to understand someone who does not speak the English language like you do. One example is a man said in the middle of a long sentence the phrase “note this down” the way he pronounced the words “note this” was unclear to me and when I asked him to stop for a second he was not listening and going on with whatever it was that he was saying. I had to be more emphatic and raise my voice to get him to stop. When he did stop he told me that he could not help me if I keep interrupting him. I tried to explain that something he said I did not understand and he was talking too fast. It seemed as if anything he had to say was far more important than anything I might be trying to ask. The next thing I heard was a dial tone. This person is not the only person that I have had like this and been hung up on by. Other people I have spoken to who have had to deal with support like this as well so I am sure it is not just me. I had foreign student workers at the university where I was a technical support supervisor that had the same issues. We had to work with them to help them to communicate better. I have also had American student workers that we had to work with as there are a number of different dialects or accents in America that are hard to understand. The issue is that when a person hears something that they do not understand their brain tries to interpret it and cannot listen while the interpreting is going on. Aparna GS and I went through the same thing and I could hear the distain in her voice when she explicitly spoke very slow and finally told me she would open a case requesting an extension of my contract for all the trouble and lack of proper protection for six months. She also made it a point to tell me I was not going to get an extension before we closed the call. I would like to speak with someone who has proper communication skills and understands customer service as I understand customer service. I have worked in retail business and the medical field both as a technician and medical staff as well as upper level technical support for a worldwide banking software company and I would never treat a customer the way I have been treated by some of the customer support people of Broadcom. I have to say that aside from the horror show of the last six months the technical support received on 5/17 from Raghunathan Kadirvel Symantec Technical Support and Chandu Broadcom Customer Assistance was excellent and the issue was resolved. In speaking with Chandu I asked if I should be able to get an extension on my contract for all the problems and not being covered for the last six months and he said I should be able to and that I needed to open a new case with customer service and get it set to high priority so I would get a call back from someone that can make that happen. Instead Aparna opened this case and now I am playing email tag with her. Please have someone call me Phone Blocked.
Thank you
Chris Bailey

AND THE LITTLE WITCH CLOSED THE CASE

Once upon a time there was Brocade and everything was normal. Now we have Broadcom and nothing is normal. If someone kindly answers the phone after an hour, it's arrogant. If you ask for escalation, it drops the phone. We are replacing our SAN infrastructure and this time it will be from Cisco. Sorry Broadcom, we will not pay again for poor service from you.

I'll no comment additional problems with Symantec, as we already migrated to Proofpoint because of same problems as above.

Support portal doesn't work. Even you paid for support it's saying that your not linked to your account. There is no way to talk anyone. Contact over the e-mail is not possible, nobody is responding. This company is joke and scam.

Absolutely dreadful service. They are no longer talking to me even though they messed up. All I want is an explanation of what went wrong but they won't talk to me any more. When they did they just repeated the same statements, didn't answer my questions at all. I will not go near this company again and will do my utmost to ensure any company I work for does not use them either.
If you want service don't look to Broadcom.

I have no idea how a company with such poor systems AND technical support can still exist. I only use them because they bought my Symantec product, but never will again. I can't log in to the relevant support portal without the right access and to request access I need to log in to the relevant support portal. An endless cycle of uselessness to which they are barely aware and totally careless.

I will avoid these morons like the plague from here on!