When can we stop stressing? When can we consider ourselves finally safe? A few months after the finalization of the acquisition? A year? Ever?
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When do the cage matches begin?
More like the hunger games
When do the cage matches begin?
In the first 2 years. Squid games I'm afraid. Watch as teammates start to take one another out.
You are delusional, blinded by the disproportionate amount of money you hope to receive.
After you get the RSU offer. There is no additional stress
- if you work efficiency and product outcome. Not belong to the bottom 20% of your department
- your BU are not below the line of doom for too long
- your out of office is small and reasonable (only OOO as PTO or sick)
I know my stuff, I produce, and I make sure my work is attributed to me
That doesn’t matter
"Safety, when it exists at all, lies in 1) possessing a skill set that is powerful, widely needed and continually honed to the cutting edge."
You just disqualified the majority of people that I work with at VMware who have been here for 15 years or more. Truly, that's why most of our senior directors are vulnerable.
I'm not stressing, at least not more than usual. There is always the stress of staying on top of work, meeting deadlines, and creating quality deliverables. That will never go away.
The stress of thinking you'll be laid off at any time? No. They did a massive amount of layoffs. I have zero stress of being laid off in the near future. I know my stuff, I produce, and I make sure my work is attributed to me. If you are under this much stress you need to first talk it out with a therapist, then find ways to manage things within your control.
No one will ever be safe at any company if they must rely on the kindness of that company to keep them. BC least of all in this area.
Safety, when it exists at all, lies in 1) possessing a skill set that is powerful, widely needed and continually honed to the cutting edge. 2) acquiring an asset base large enough to support you indefinitely irrespective of the whims of corporate leadership.
If you have the first, the second will follow. Indeed, if you have the first, you may not need the second, though it will likely appear.
If you are not contributing to revenue, just there because of DEI or some unusual and unnecessary requirements, yes, you will be stressed out. For you, dust will never settle until you find another opportunity like VMware. See how poorly IT & Ops got treated; everybody falls victim to redundancy. There is so much dust in R&D, but that will also settle with time. Until then, all the best; may you excel.
The company is well run, it is just that you don’t matter as much as you think you do.
From what I've seen so far, BC has no real clue about being a technology company. They do a dang good job of being a private equity / holding company, though.
In the last several weeks, they announced a whole slew of rules that will cause an overall drop in productivity -- signaling to vetrans that they really have no idea how to make a proprietary OS, and software for it.
It's not like writing Windows Apps, where any PC will do and any developer is a cog to process Windows messages.
They will manage the money just fine, but from what I've seen, they won't manage the company's real assests with grace.
Good luck to them.
no job is safe in any company. However, in some companies, people are ethical and play by a set of rules and try their very best to be fair. In BCM, well, it is not people centric and they are super transparent about it. So, if you buy into their mantra of share price above everything for a pay check, then you have to su-k it in.. dont complain about the down sides. If you cannot stand it, well you know what to do.
Or, the company is pretty poorly run with little communication or planning -- just execute whatever comes to mind.
The company is well run, it is just that you don’t matter as much as you think you do.
Now move your desk to the basement.
You must have just started working. Nothing is permanent in life.
Nothing is ever safe in tech
The money is good so the way to feel safe is to build good savings
simple solution - get a new job.
Never.
That is life under authoritarian rule.
The answer is never.
Just take a moment to retrospect on everything that has happened.
A quick forced RTO.
Then for a remote office, forced WFH while work is done in the office.
Following that, for some buildings, the inhabitants must move to another building while construction is done.
Are we to believe that these rennovations just popped up?
That RTO could not have been delayed until all the rennovation was complete?
Is there a designed-in cruelty with the way that these operations are being understaken?
A conspiratorial-minded person might think that they is trying to break people and induce them to quit. Or, the company is pretty poorly run with little communication or planning -- just execute whatever comes to mind.
Either way, it's not a good look.