What matters is if the product space you work for brings in the amount of money that Broadcom wants. If your product is not a product used by any major customer, you're out.
When the offers were rolled out at CA, many of the individual decisions almost seemed random, and none of our personal managers up to VP level had no input in who stays and who goes. There were top performers that were let go and people everyone deemed useless were retained.
This is a strict numbers game, if they think they need you to meet the targets they are setting for your Business Unit/product space then you get a stay offer. If not you get termed. If you are in a product space where they intend to transition customers out to a partner organisation, you will get a transition offer (meaning they want to retain you until your headcount is no longer required).
All these decision will be made public as fast as possible, and you can at least give them that once they have made up their mind, they move quickly and let you know. In that sense, there is little ambiguity.
I thought this should be in its own thread. It was originally posted by @10z2gJ1S-2tlg.