How's it going now everyone has left?
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@kemc....gee thank you for the lesson in microeconomics and corporate finance...
I’ve worked at quite a few tech firms, not just CA...Broadust isn’t driving any innovation. It’s sc-aping mold off the bread...
And as far as MF is concerned, that’s just pumping a dry hole....tell us all about it at the end of the year..,
“ The MF BU increased head count 10%, and will come close to that number again this year. I'm sure they're just hiring all of these people just to fire them two months later.”
Who are all the longest tenured CAers with the biggest amount of RSUs to vest and highest salaries? Mainframers.
If you grow and cross train you can then make life hard for those same tenured people and if they leave they don’t get payouts or stock. Plus you can pay the new people 2/3 of what the old people get.
I’m surprised this isn’t obvious to you.
GeneralSalami, how delusional are you? All companies are this way. That is the purpose of a corporation, to make money for its owners. If you want virtue, go work for a non-profit. So many of these posts make me laugh, as they were either day ones, or stuck on **** products that don't make money. For the money makers, Broadcom has been orders of magnitude better than CA of the post Charles years. The MF BU increased head count 10%, and will come close to that number again this year. I'm sure they're just hiring all of these people just to fire them two months later. Is that right? Broadcom may seem ruthless, but at least they're up front about it. They clearly lay out target numbers and expect you to make it. If you do, you get a nice bonus. If not, then your budget might shrink. At CA, you would crush your targets and you would still lose 10-15% of your staff.
@Gugm...there is your fatal mistake. You are assuming it’s a SOFTWARE company. Wrong assumption...the former CA is a revenue and profit stream. Nothing more.
RSUs 7 years vesting a joke. Octane must understand software salaries much higher and move faster in industry
Pretty Great! I am glad I’ve sold my soul to Hock for a premium. First born for a company car?
Oh, it's been horrible. So far this year I've been granted tens of thousands of dollars in stock. Next week I'm getting a mid-five figure cash bonus on top of another stock grant and dividend. Oh the horror. I wish Mike was still in charge and I was getting no bonus or stock. Why is the world so cruel?
@RonaldRump
But wait I work at innovation drive office doesn’t that mean we are working on cutting edge innovations? Though, I do wonder why the code has ‘copyright 1999’ stamped in it. Prolly just a typo, right? I added a great innovation to the product today. without my change the product crashes the customer app server. That is some real serious innovation. I was so happy I printed signs to hang in my cubicle “innovation zone”. I think this highlights my genius ability so I’m going to ask my manager for $25,000 raise to base salary , or should I ask for more ?
@ 12iwtGx0-tvf...
Dead on for sure. If you’ve worked for a software business in the past...any role in Broadcom is a dead end...
@-4hbx @-4gxc
We on same team ? We might work for the same guy VS? I practice coding problems all day too this guy doesn’t know what his team do.
You only work 2 hours a day? I think I have you beat. If I put in 1 good solid 8 hour day, then I pretty much don’t have to work for the rest of the week. Most days look like this: I stroll in after 10am, take a 2-3 hour lunch&walk, attend a meeting in which people just talk about nothing, take another walk to cafeteria for food & coffee, check email and head home.
I have to get out so fast. I’m so tired of hearing about non-strategy strategy called AIOps when it’s just window dressing. I’m waiting for Prague to run out of stuff to do then they will come after my group and projects. I hope they put us all out of our misery soon. no need for us @ innovation we are too bloated, too costly. I work from home practicing interviewing more than I actually do work. I probably only work 2 hours a day. Managers don’t know or just don’t care. Nobody cares.
I’m on my way out. Have a few offers, now deciding. What I realized is staying at Broadcom would do more harm than good. CA product tech stack is irrelevant giving me zero marketable skills for future jobs. So I was willing to take a pay cut to leave. To my surprise some offers turned out are better than Broadcom because Broadcom pays our rsu over 7 years. Lol. Broadcom is a good place if you allowed your skills to atrophy under CA or you are few years from retirement and want to rest and vest. Otherwise it’s career s–c-de to join Broadcom. Anyone with more than 3 years of career left I would recommend leaving if you work on CA product.
Covered in previous thread. https://www.thelayoff.com/t/11NOG8sv