What % of managers were laid off from CA after Broadcom acquisition?
What % of engineers were laid off from CA after Broadcom acquisition?
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Broadcom employees are pretty much self managed. My Manager went from two products in CA to managing 6 products in Broadcom. He doesn't have time to sit over my shoulders as he is to busy handling escalations from angry customers or is in meetings with the critical customers. I have a telephone meeting with him once every 2 weeks and unless he wants me to handle an escalation I almost never talk to him otherwise.
@10GbdMLN-zcz
How about go over to CA company page on this site, and read the experiences of people who stayed after Broadcom acquisition, maybe then your single celled brain would be able to grasp a thing or two.
If the existing incompetent management had any ideas to run the enterprise division, they wouldn't be sold. A company is made great by hard work of ICs, name me one Dir/VP/SVP in Enterprise or Consumer who has contributed something extraordinary and I will name you 10 ICs who have given their all creating awesome products.
And guess what genius? Hock Tan values ICs more than a manager (from Broadcom employees)
Even at consumer division, we have incompetent id–ts who goes on creating dumb products like Norton Core, Norton Privacy Manager etc, thinking its a breakthrough idea.
@10GbdMLN-yeq
That's kind of a dumb statement. You're not taking into consideration business continuity. If they let go of managers, directors and VPs. Who is going to manage ICs? All teams will still need a manager, and those managers will still need a director for each region. Those directors will have to report to a VP[Rich in the case of support] or directly to Art as GM of Enterprise.
As its been mentioned in few threads, there are 3-4 levels between IC and the CEO at broadcom.
So, the managers, dir and VPs are doomed