VMware didn’t need all of those employees and Broadcom runs VMware with more efficiency and profitability than most of you thought was possible.
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Also without most of the customers.
Attend the Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture
Stop talking about filth like inefficiencies of VMware
Saved means turned into a profitable company. People seem to forget the purpose of any business is to MAKE MONEY. It's not the humanitarian institute of career building nor the software to save the world feel-good factory. Go work for non-profits or go back to school if that's what you expect.
VMW had to be bought to be saved
nope. key people made a lot of moolah on the sale. end of story. any 'saving' was just a side effect
wow look at all those downvotes to the valid point here of: too many employees than needed eating profits so much VMW had to be bought to be saved by mgmt who are not cowards to cost cutting. I assume it's those who've been laid off. Of course you'd think headcount cuts are wrong and evil if you're among those cut. It su-ks to be terminated but you win some you lose some, you get fired you get hired, all part of tech careers. It's just business, folks, not evil conspiracy.
@20y only innovation i recall was constant repackaging and repricing the same underlying pig
@s5 Totally agree. Raghu wasn't expected to do anything other than hold down a desk until the acquisition closed.
Here we are a couple years on, and I don't remember any visionary, company-wide tech initiatives from those days. Maybe I forgot.. were there any? And no, acquiring a ton of little companies doesn't count. That stuff only added to our 1,001 different ways of doing the same thing.
Big-time jail time is coming. Broadcom has effectively become a monopoly, and it seems intentional—aimed at breaking the system. Even if you're an engineer just minding your own business and saw your compensation skyrocket by 10 times, ask yourself: Is this normal? And more importantly, what will happen when regulators in the U.S. and Europe start their investigations and indictments?
Will you be left off the hook? No.
You knew. You know. And you continued.
This applies to every individual working at Broadcom. Look at the history of companies that became monopolies. Engineers, HR staff, and leadership—everyone was prosecuted.
Check: United States v. James Robert Liang, United States v. Andreas, United States v. Sergey Aleynikov, United States v. Hutchins, United States v. Morris, United States v. Jensen, United States v. Kapp, United States v. Patel (H1B visa fraud), United States v. D’Souza (immigration fraud), United States v. DaVita Inc.
Efficiency. Looks like zero employees will be infinite efficiency for a few months.
@r7 I think it's safe to say, Raghu was never going to be the one to "clean things up".
True, VMware suffered from sprawl, but we could have cleaned our own house instead of having BC do it. It would have taken serious leadership to pull that off though, and I don't know whether that was ever going to happen.
Just don't forget, the REAL reason for selling VMware wasn't that it needed fixing, it was that a bunch of higher-ups and mega-shareholders made a ton of money by proposing and approving the deal.
I am the only one left on my team and I report two levels up. Doing the best I can.
Some are going to jail for this scam. I have worked in VCF since 2015. This is total bull. Either way they to to pin this on someone. Many will pay.
The big customers need more time. Almost there
The clastar fakk happens all at once. Yet to come. The big one.
It's cooked. No need for layoffs anymore. The final shutdown is near. Things are so fakked.
Ok? You seem a bit insecure.
Sure, vmw could have been better - basically incompetence (that apparently gets you hired to be ceo of Intel … that went well!) and sign of the transient woke times of Betty - which is a symptom of an even larger dysfunctional society.
However, that doesn’t make joining the MAGA cult of Hock acceptable, where the moral compass is to räpe his customers and the crush his employees, see them driven before him, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Hock is old. Enjoy the obit when it comes.
No shïts will be given.
Rest and vest if you can, otherwise seek new opportunities!
I think everyone will agree that VMware was a bloated company with opportunities to be more efficient. In my opinion, the problem people have is more about how Broadcom does it, i.e. mass layoffs, increasing prices, forcing customer isn't solutions they don't want or need.