Some are already hypothetically saying that Marketing / Sales will be hit hardest. I'm wondering which positions will be the safest during the Broadcom acquisition?
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To the person above that said he / she is pi---d off regarding layoff comments. Can I just say that both Hock Tan and Tom Kraus said in the internal meeting that exactly those departments will see redundancies. Like HR, IT, Marketing etc. it’s not fear mongering unfortunately but reality.
In short, the safest positions are those roles working directly in core products, including most (not all) of R&D in those.
The non-safe ones are:
Finance and HR - these will be all gone since Broadcom has very strong departments in these areas - they won't need more.
Marketing is all gone, since Broadcom is very frugal in this area, with a reason. It does not translate to significant money as they are a B2B organization.
Next is non-core IT (product managers, project managers, transformation and digital evangelists) as well as the shadow ITs in the business. These do not have space in Broadcom business model, internally known as 'fat' in the M&A teams
Core-IT will be offered to stay to about 30%, mostly technical SMEs. These need to play smart since as soon as their criticality diminishes, they will be shown the door quickly
I'll be honest. I'm a little pi---d off at some of the comments here regarding some of the other departments that are being potentially let go. You've got to understand that a lot of the people in those other departments work every bit as hard as some of you. So stop acting all smug. A lot of those people in those departments helped sell the product that you worked on. So don't be so smug. You too could very well be losing your job. Or at the very least, find yourself working for a company that has zero character and zero emphasis on the well-being of the employee like VMware did
This article gives a good idea how Broadcom works:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/30/broadcom_strategy_vmware_customer_impact/
The majority of positions at Broadcom are technical. Hock runs a very flat organization with very few layers of management. All of the middle management monkeys need to find another zoo.
My opinion is that the following areas should assume to be completely gone (or almost completely gone) soon after acquisition as they are the easiest to figure out redundancies with existing Broadcom functions.
- Sales & Marketing
- IT (administration and such)
- HR
- Accounting
Engineering is harder to understand in terms of which personnel are redundant so my thoughts are that it will take more time to cut these.
Safest: Engineers, developers, technical support and anybody who contributes significantly to keeping VMware's core list of products and big customers happy and successful.
Not so safe: Big Marketing teams , Human Resources, Internal IT, middle managers, "evangelists", "innovators", "speculators", "dreamers", long expensive projects that go nowhere, lurches into unproven directions .... you get the point