Is there any chance Broadcom would retain CIO staff? Why is there so much negativity towards CIO?
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Cost centers get no respect in this situation.
"Why is there so much negativity towards CIO?"
Because the existing CIO is a babbling fool who is in way over his head and his directs are a bunch of sychophantic su-k-ups intent on riding the coat tails of those who actually do the work would be my best guess.
But what do I know? I just work in that group.
Highly unlikely there will be much/any retention. Broadcom IT is one of the most tightly run units in the company.
BC has 2x VMW's revenue but their IT staff (employees) is less than 10% of what VMW CIO staff has. >90% of BC IT work is outsourced (mostly to India firms). It's part of Hock's playbook to only have employees that are tied to revenue (that's why his employee-to-revenue metric is so good). You can't blame him as AVGO stock performance is nothing to shake a stick at! Any good/great (and/or motivated) VMW IT folks already left as they knew this.
“BC Cio left?”
No, but the CTO did. People here can’t keep their info straight.
https://youtu.be/wSAtLkuuNJE
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BC Cio left?
IT is viewed as a necessary evil, just as employees. Expect deep cuts as the CA IT team was totally decimated.
The current Broadcom CIO left, he was a useless sack of $#it anyways...
Broadcom CIO headcount is extremely low, relying on vendors to do the work and employees to manage it. This is way more cost effective than the bloated IT organization at VMware.
Their intent is to let go everyone who is not doing support or keep-the-lights-on work in day 0. Those remaining will be hired for the transition of those activities to the IT vendors for 6 months. Thereafter, remaining original VMware IT will be near zero.
This is not a new or revolutionary approach. All large M&A proceed this way.
Buh-bye!
Why do you need a CIO to sell a hypervisor?
IT had spent the last year trying to justify their existence by creating more work for the rest of the company. They will and should be axed.
@lca+1oi4xRWC wrote:
There is usually no fuzzy feeling towards cost centers. Broadcom outsources most >business operations including what CIO org does. High chance that they will not retain >any CIO staff
It is rather interesting to speculate how they will handle this org. I doubt they can transition it to a vendor on Day 0. Perhaps they will cut a large chunk of it on Day 0 then offer transitioning roles to a few to stay back and help with the transition. I think this makes the most sense to me.
Bloated and low service quality
There is usually no fuzzy feeling towards cost centers. Broadcom outsources most business operations including what CIO org does. High chance that they will not retain any CIO staff