Broadcom employees that were acquired from another company (Symantec, CA, etc.), when were you notified of your fate with Broadcom? The VMware board is overflowing with "we'll know if we have a position within Broadcom on September 1st"-esque rumours. As always, your insight is appreciated.
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Will there be a meeting request from Broadcom HR ? OR the offer letter is just an email sent to previous company email address
Yes, severance was offered. Yes, offer comes from Broadcom.
Had the offer or notice come from Broadcom or CA/Symantec management?
Hearing some news the new notice of transition or offer comes from Broadcom and not VMware
Was there severance offered to those cut on the first day?
Agree with HockFan on the Symantec experience. The one caveat that should be spelt out for clarity is the 12000 number included both the enterprise and consumer business. The consumer business was spun off as NortonLifelock and Broadcom acquired the enterprise business. The final 2500 number (probably even lower now with attrition) is just the enterprise business.
It’s happening with vmware now. Closing date is 10/30. Sr roles trying to close things by mid Sept, may be informally we get hints. Some projects defunded. More talks about YoY growth plan and finally aligning toward BC way.
These answers are consistent with what I experienced coming from Symantec at that time. I got in touch with CA people to better understand and it was helpful for me.
For CA, we received an "informal" heads-up on what to personally expect from our manager 6-8 weeks before the close date. So early September is entirely consistent with past behavior given the expected 10/30 close date.
We were told on the first day after the acquisition legally closed. They basically cut 50% of the company on this day. A year later they cut even more. I don’t know the exact numbers, but believe we went from 12,000 employees to around 2,500 over a two year period. The challenge, they don’t communicate these numbers to you so this is largely based on what I’ve heard, so directionally accurate. I just need to work for another 2 years and then I’m done. Areas like HR, Marketing were almost all laid off. Engineering and Sales not so bad. Keep in mind, we had too many people for a company our size before Broadcom came into the mix.