Thread regarding Broadcom Corp. layoffs

Big cuts in 2024

@jbqv+1eZAiyXF.... EXACTLY! unless BSG acquires anothe firm by sometime in 2023.... 2024 will be bloodletting...

those mainframe people think they're safe..they're not....

The hiring push is laughable and scary. What will they do when Hock decides MSD has 300 more people than needed in fall 2023. You be lucky to get more than 2 full vesting periods

@gjce+1eZAiyXF Because the non-MF youngsters know they can jump ship, and will at the right time. Have you seen all the bs posts on linked in saying “we’re hiring”. BS…G is desperate in trying to hire talent, and most techs wouldn’t come to BS…G in fear of muscle atrophy….

The ES people know they’re already on a ship that’s taking on water… realize the sheet will start hitting fan next year so they’ll rest/vest and interview since to some extent have transferable skills…at least more that the museum docents in MF….

@dgev+1eZAiyXF ultimately that's where most companies are headed. choice. prior to this place the company i worked for allowed wfh, majority of people were in office and maybe 20% did the wfh thing, but did come in office for critical meetings, etc. those wfh people had like 2+ hour commutes, but we're high value employees.

the people i interact with arent "cautious" as much as its convenient and when their in office they spend 80% of their time interacting with people all over the place. so what's the point of being in office....? the whole "innovation by being shoulder to shoulder" narrative is bull$hit. innovation happens in the minds of a few individuals, the rest are empty minds taking notes....

I never see nonmainframe in Plano. They never come in or they just swipe and leave wtf

At this point it seems Broadcom has managed to pi-s off both the cautious crowd who want to continue working from home and the lets-get-back-to-normal crowd (like me) who are tired of the escalating mandates.

Seems it wouldn't be that hard to make everybody happy and give us a choice - work at home if you're worried or work in the office but without more and more rules.

Well that didn’t last long….lmfao…. Keep those cell phones nearby for internet access…OMFUG….

How much money being wasted on two tests per week for every employee instead of just letting us work at our fkin homes?!

@2fwn+1eZAiyXF And the right isn’t practicing cancel culture too…..? Wake up.

@3cam+1eZAiyXF It is even more pathetic since they powers that be admit that the vaccine will not stop the spread of omicron. Yet Hock keeps blazing ahead with full speed ignorance, all because he thinks it is still the 1970s.

There seems to be an assumption that just because we’re vaccinated and boosted that we’re all ok with getting the virus. This seems to be the main flaw in Broadcom’s office policy. It’s tone deaf.

@1itw+1eZAiyXF That's very true, the US employees are making a ki----g in salary and RSUs. The EU guys can call for a free ambulance to treat their broken eyelash, get a minimum 4 weeks of paid leave through state law, paid sick leave (again, by law), have pension arrangements that cannot, actually, be defrauded at the drop of a hat, 2-3 years of paid parental leave after the birth of a child (yes, years), free kindergarten, school, university, students have free programs to roam around Europe for free, to say nothing of not having to deal with all that BLM, infinite genders, cancel culture idiocy. I guess things have a way of balancing out in the end, don't they.

The US gov is bloated but not as bad as the EU. Some of their governments will mandate these jabs but companies cannot do it. On the other hand, the US employees are making more than triple in salary and RSUs than their Prague counterparts so...

I think in some respects it’s GL more than the Tan-man to some degree…

Why don’t they just stay on teams until things warm up…nobody will miss a beat…

OTOH…. Plenty of jobs out there man….

Easy answer. It is the US "savage capitalism" paradigm.
In the EU, AVGO has to deal with GDPR, workers' rights, labor laws, the European Court for Human Rights and so on. Rather than facing this and the unknown that follows through challenging the might of this super-state system, they will kow tow and abide by the rules.
In the US, on the other hand, there is no solid, country mandated legal framework to prevent AVGO from abusing and imposing that bs "our culture" tag line. No disrespect meant, but this seems to be the will of the US people for a long time, almost as strong as the US constitution and the bill of rights. If you are fretting in line to climb on top, don't whine when you are on the bottom, but fight to get up. No unions allowed, obviously.
This doesn't mean that AVGO is at peace with the European system. Personally, I have a feeling Octane has sleepless nights thinking about how to dump EMEA personnel as a whole.
Hock, my man, time to speak up: am I right or am I right?