The rumour on the street is that next week there is going to be layoffs in biggest SDDC business units, due to new go to market strategy.
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specialist teams were hit hard, vCF and vSAN have been dissolved.
There were also some RIFs in GSS including ACE official story was that new CXS org does not work with certain MAPBU platforms and trying to become more lean...shareholder's pressure as always..
WW partner org impacted. Seems like 15 to 20 % in partner.
Any lay-off in digital/web marketing
All Partner SE's gone......
On the Modern Application Business Unit (Tanzu), three Business Development Directors were let go of today.
People from recent acquisition of AVI networks are being let go. Only 2 so far that we have heard of. They in the NSBU I think.
My boss, as senior director for VMW marketing, was told that their position was eliminated.
Yes, engineering was impacted but don't know to what extent.
Was engineering impacted?
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/07/h-1b-san-jose-firm-will-pay-to-resolve-claim-it-favored-indian-applicants-over-white-applicants/
Affects lay-off decisions at VMware too. And ALL employees are impacted by such casteism.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3azjp5/silicon-valley-has-a-caste-discrimination-problem
Does anyone have 1:1's setup?
It seems like VMware is shifting focus from perpetual license sales to selling as a service through the hyperscalers
@OP: In which branches? Marketing/sales/engineering?
Sddc was initially owned by ISBU which merged with SABU to become HCI BU which again merged with CPBU and retains the BU name. So I guess the answer to your question is CPBU?
Can I ask that which BU is the biggest SDDC BU? Thx!