39K before acquisition, how about now?
How far to go to reach 7K or another number?
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There really isn’t anyone from VMware left. Those folks are now zombie drones who walk around in the shadows avoiding to eyes of HT and his minions, praying no one notices their RSU vests l.
The zombies hope to ride it out as long as possible. There is no engineering culture, or passion for anything but the status quo.
Those not paid well or who have few RSUs are so stupid they can’t count as being human, let alone an employee.
Glad I left this shǐthole of a company ages ago.
It's just an inverted pyramid. Too many useless architects and directors. No one to actually do any work. That is how VMware was driven in to the ground for a decade. Same thing continues. All the work falls on a few junior folks.
40k included 15k euc. There is 4800 left in euc and its sinking because they are not replacing support staff. Cork used to have 900 people, now it has 150 and most of the buildings are gone. Shaker has destroyed euc and pi---d away the profits with customers leaving in droves due to bugs and no innovation. Nobody in their right mind will buy anything that was VMware before hock in 5 years. Hock and shanker are midus in reverse.
It's true. The "Broadcom Way" is on refrigerator magnets and wall art and t-shirts all over the buildings -- it's called Acquire & Fire
A lot
Not many, they are deleting us left and right under the excuses that it’s the Broadcom way.
10K
25K
I was reading this blog yesterday:
https://cloudinfra.blog/the-broadcom-vmware-saga-acquisition-turbulence-talent-drain-and-the-rise-of-alternatives-in-2025/
The drain of talent "19,000 employees" makes Broadcom at the breaking point.
All the architects of VCF knew that this is cruel joke on the customers. They were selling stocks as soon as they could. All of them are gone.
Anyone selling stocks are gone. We just have bag holders now. Mostly the young and d-mb ones and the boomers who are in middle mangmnt. It doesn't matter if they are fired or not. They will be slaving long after it all crashes. If they can keep the visas.
There is no VMware, only Hock!
REPO madness of 2019 is back. Mainly a collapse of credit. BRCM debt to equity is insane. Second only to ORCL. This PE madness will end soon.
The head is cut off. All the great architects of VCF have been fired in the past year. The rest of the company will be fired as the bubble bursts and customers transition into the overbuilt public hyper scalers. The hyper scalers will give away the capacity just like they did to ki-l VMware in the past.
vmware only has itself to blame for the acquisition. 40k was insane..... so much bloat and bs jobs
Don’t worry, we will get to employee zero soon enough!