It's not a small difference. I wonder how many of you who are now actively job hunting don't want to risk losing your job, and how many of you are just looking to find something new because you wouldn't want to work at Broadcom?
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But what about
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paologaudiano/2017/10/23/how-to-increase-diversity-without-lowering-the-bar/?sh=26ff619a6581
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DEI clearly lowers the bar, in fact many of the advocates for DEI promote that as an explicit strategy. Instead of running roughshod over the company, fund 10,000 people a year to attend a boot camp and then let them interview.
"The ethics of supporting underrepresented folks aside, it's a good financial move to have DE&I programs. "
As they say correlation does not equal causation. There is nothing in the report that points to causation. The report does not say what kind of companies are in the underperfroming group. It could simply be that the companies with DEI programs are tech companies while the others are traditional companies and the performance difference is due to product type and markets addressed.
DEI would work great if people hired had relevant skills. It falls apart when companies like VMware hire people due to how they look or who they believe they are or who they prefer to sleep with instead of if they have the required skills. Years of this at VMware has ruined the company and the products. Great in theory bad bad bad in practice.
Just dropping in to remind folks who keep bringing up their grips with DE&I that companies that do this stuff are on average much more profitable than companies that do not. The ethics of supporting underrepresented folks aside, it's a good financial move to have DE&I programs. If you want your company to make the most money, you want a diverse workplace.
Source: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inclusion/diversity-wins-how-inclusion-matters
If you work at Broadcom, you work for the stock, not the customer.
VMware's culture is to focus on solving problems and serving our customers.
vmware's culture is not customer focused. It's focusoed on developers having
fun and adopting all the new techology that Google has released.
I will leave most likely for 2 reasons:
- I'm worried I'll have to wait too long before I can find another role.
- I don't want to work from an office, and be micromanaged, all while waiting for the ax to fall on me. Honestly, who wants to live in a squid game every day, which is what it sounds like working for Hock is like?
If you work at Broadcom, you work for the stock, not the customer. VMware's culture is to focus on solving problems and serving our customers. This will be the mind-shift most VMware employees haven't accepted yet. Hock only cares about customers willing to overpay for his products...and even then "cares" is a strong word.
We talk more about DE&I than we do about software.
DE&I at vmware is just cover to hire the cheapest person, as long as they are Indian.
If you are a person of value, that works hard and happy to put in a shift and get rewarded for it, assuming you are offered a job with BC, that’s not terrible? I have spoken to a few BC people who have been there not via any acquisition but hired direct and said they work hard and BC treats them fairly and they are well compensated…..I’m happy with that, some might not be, each to their own choice of what they do
I don’t care about all the cr-p, I just want to work hard and get paid well ….I have fun with what I do outside of work
The more I think about it, the more appealing a No-BS Broadcom environment sounds. Sure I expect that it will be demanding and appropriately rewarding, but a return to EPS over ESG seems like a refreshing change.
Hock does not care about anything else except how much value you add. If your position is not cash positive you are gone. I am 10 year Broadcom employee, acquired from a startup, he laid off 90% of my coworkers. Hock has made me rich but I had to earn it.
| So what is the focus? |
Hock wants the best most component people, regardless of skin color. I can't imagine the amount of money VMware wastes on DE&I. We talk more about DE&I than we do about software. Hock very well may get VMware on a more sustainable path by cutting out all the BS in the company and trim us down.
So what is the focus?
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Hock Tan doesn't give a sh*t about diversity or being popular on Glassdoor.
Seriously? @can+1ieUsmN5
Broadcom isn’t even asking or looking at Diversity data. It is not a focus for them. If you are retained, it will have nothing to do with any diversity measures or protected classes.
Due to massive layoffs ahead is why I am looking for external opportunities. I’m not “diverse” (I.e. I’m just boring and am white and straight) so I worry about being offered a role with Broadcom once the acquisition hits bc VMware only cares about DE&I.
I would love the opportunity to work for Broadcom post acquisition as I am a work horse on the team I am apart of, yet I’m not “diverse” and feel I will be the first to be laid off because I don’t check a box on their metric they are looking to fulfill bc I’m just a basic white and straight employee.
It would be in almost everyone’s interests to be looking right now regardless - having an option to go on your own terms is better than a change being dictated to you in my book
Both. Because there is no doubt in my mind that BC will lay most of us off. Secondly, I have worked at companies that sound very similar to BC. I don't want to experience that again. Simple.