As stated in the company meeting, Broadcom will be contacting us individually, without our managers having input or knowledge, to let us know our fate. We are going to be left in our team to be sharing the news with each other and our manager of who is staying and going. If our whole team doesn't stay, it's going to get awkward really fast. It's unclear whether we even know who is on the new team and who we will be reporting to, or whether we just have job offer and comp on the table. Not the most professional way to start a new regime in my opinion.
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"Best it to shutdown office laptop now and open personal laptop to prepare a resume and start prepping."
Honestly, I've been using the company laptop for this for a month. I guess it's my way of saying IDGAF.
Somebody said “But like they say. It’s just business”
It’s worse than business.
It’s Broadcom
"I directly manage employees across four countries. I take some grim amusement on the idea that I'm laid off, and gone, before half my team even knows their fate"
Your title/level may change, "demotion with better pay" but you are safe! You will be there, to your "grim amusement" 🤔
Best it to shutdown office laptop now and open personal laptop to prepare a resume and start prepping. Soon so many ex-vmware employees will be competing for the same job in market.
I manage a team across US and Europe - small team but regardless, during last RFIs we had some say. Essentially our VP said we SHOULD reduce if we can. Up to x number of people. So it wasn’t really mandatory and I decided to essentially no. I need them all. The time before that under Pat we were essentially told either an absolute number or % of people that need to go. Which was the worst part because of you got only rockstars as a team then letting someone go su-ks. But it’s business so here we go.
I have a split opinion about not being told. On one hand I don’t have to decide (chicken out, I know) but on the other - which is a lot worse - it also means that bcom clearly don’t give a single fu-k about tenure or performance.
It’s a numbers game. I have people that are at the top end of P5 / P6 package and I got people at the bottom end. I fear (again no one told me so keep your questions to yourself) that if it’s a money number game then the top end will likely go.
Our team works with a lot of senior staff that are essentially rockstars in general (not my team). Think an out people that aren’t just known internally but even some of the community look up to. Some of them are on ridiculous packages.
Again I don’t know if it truly is just money and ebitda (although Hock obviously said they need to double it in three years), but if I see some people in the business that are on $300/400k but basically just playing with new tech, creating blogs and living the dream, then long tenure or not, I’d rather see those guys leave than my team that actually works towards targets and are billable.
Anyway, I always said I stick to my guys till the end but I also have kids and a mortgage so I’ll be leaving in three months.
I sincerely hope it works out for the good guys here. We have a lot of dead meat and I am sure everybody knows that. But we also have incredible talent that deserves anything and everything they got and I feel sorry for them.
But like they say. It’s just business.
"Kit has given a good hint that all GM’s will get a number and they will decide who they want to retain and based on GM list people will get BC offer letter"
GM for current BU/ORG...who will that be? VP/D/SM.Outcomes will vary hugely on proposed GM? Nepotism, favouritism will prevail FACT!
Kit has given a good hint that all GM’s will get a number and they will decide who they want to retain and based on GM list people will get BC offer letter.
Its going to be different.
I get that this is just a vent and let it be that but its not healthy to sit and obsess about all the details none of us can foresee or control!
Brush up your resume. Network. Be prepared for the worst and just know that you can only control your attitude and your effort. Everything else is just a useless energy su-k. I have faith that we will all be ok, whatever specific outcome that it may be.
Same situation.
I directly manage employees across four countries. I take some grim amusement on the idea that I'm laid off, and gone, before half my team even knows their fate.
Agreed, especially considering many teams span countries. My team is in 5 different countries and some may not know until after the deal closes. How fun will the team meeting be if some are kept, some are let go, and some won't know until afterwards? At least there will be only 1 team meeting between the time we "should" know and the time it closes. Makes you wonder how many of us will not have a clue WTF is going on when Oct 31st rolls around.