Cybersecurity experts have spoken - Broadcom's pending $10.7 billion acquisition of Symantec's enterprise security business doesn't bode well for Symantec enterprise customers, particularly because Broadcom plans to scale back Symantec R&D and Support, focusing efforts on what they're calling the 'highest ROI' products, endpoint security, web security and DLP.
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My experience at Broadcom from CA was that all of our Sustaining Engineering have kept their jobs but it was everything else including support that was cut at 60%. The cuts were quite strange as in Europe they mostly kept the highest job titles but in the US the cuts were unrational and it was done to balance out the age of those kept vs those cut.
Workload is much higher but sustainable because it's 99% daily work while CA was 60% daily work and 40% meetings and special projects that made management look good. Broadcom doesn't seem to care about numbers as much as CA did in terms of mttr,slo's, 1st day closures, etc..
Broadcom also got rid of customers support chat which is a huge time saver for us and we are no longer tied to our desks.