How looks the Confidential and Private part of an offer to an employee from Broadcom

April 11, 2025

This is the wording I received in an offer from Broadcom for a permanent position. After the citation I insert my comments.

Collecting increased transit fees for transport of Russian gas by Bulgaria and Poland and donating the win to Ukraine is a valiant act

February 14, 2025

Collecting high fees for transit of Russian gas by Bulgaria and Poland and donating the excessive win as help to Ukraine will accelerate the end of the war.

Handling Spam is forced, involuntarily, unpaid Work (stolen time)

February 2, 2025

The involuntary handling of spam, is unpaid work. Likewise for advertisements inserted in the mailbox of the living house and unsolicited telephone advertisements. To solve the problem this work must be paid. Currently it is not paid, as there is no proof that human life has value.

Cyrus IMAP Support

October 25, 2024

I offer paid support for Cyrus IMAP: troubleshooting, installation assistance, new features. I have many contributions to its source code, so I know how and where to resolve problems. If the support use case can be of use for others, I will propose upstream adjustments to the documentation or the source code.

./configure ‑‑help : ‑‑enable-feature or ‑‑disable-feature?

October 16, 2024

By default a feature can be enabled, disabled, when ./configure is run, or its value may depend on the environment. Should ./configure ‑‑help print for it ‑‑enable-feature or ‑‑disable-feature?

Is it good that Hungary offers simplified visa procedure for Russians?

August 2, 2024

Hungary announced that it will offer easier visa procedures for Russians. This is likely done, in order to get staff to build the new nuclear plant in Paks by Rosatom. Is the criticism justified, that this will lead to more spies circulating in EU?

Why I have not rejoined Broadcom

July 28, 2024

In the beginning of 2023 I was looking for jobs about static code analysis and in turn I started working at Broadcom.

The text below presents my experience. In other departments in Broadcom under the same conditions things might have run in other ways. That is: Broadcom might provide in general not the work environment described here.

Good things first: I appreciated that there was no stress at work and there was never pressure on me to deliver faster, there were no deadlines or intrigues, no finger pointing. Everybody tried to be constructive. The computer I received allowed me to do pretty much everything I needed.