No one knows exactly how and when the layoffs will be done, but in the end expect 70% of VMware employees to be gone in under 2 years. The real question is how valuable does Broadcom value your division? This is my guess after seeing so many layoffs. We used to nick name divisions platinum, gold, silver, or other. If you have growth plus margins over 70% and products are strategic to Broadcom you were platinum. This ment you keep your SVP, most of management, lose half or more of supporting teams (IT, support, HR, etc…) and lose 10-20% of engineering base on projects and SVPs decision. A platinum SVP will keep their job if they keep the difficult margin goals. The gold division has 30-50% margins and enough revenue to keep. This was the most common. The SVP might be gone in favor of head of engineering, if not their time would be short. Most of support teams are gone on day one, 20% of engineering and management is gone on day one, and 25% is pre-marked to be gone in 6-12 months. The silver division has enough revenue to keep but no strategic value. You don’t want to be on these divisions. All support teams are gone on day one except minimum required and those remaining are set to be transitioned in 6 months. Most of management is gone on day one. The goal is to create a minimum team that can keep the product standing. The goal is to merge with another division or sell the division or just keep in maintenance mode to milk profits. Others don’t fit in the above and sometimes just layoff off at 100%, or merged into another division on day one, or sold off on day one. Most of VMware divisions are too big to be silver, but products/parts of divisions might be. Good luck and look for a new job anyway.
Bumped for good info from @rtf+1hmZZpnw.