How flat do we expect to see our new structure come November? For me currently it it: me (IC) > Manager > Sr. Manager > Director > Sr. Director > VP > VP > SVP/EVP > President > CEO
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This is gonna be great!
Just you to hock.. he can handle 30k direct reports with weekly 1:1’s.
1:1’s are just therapy sessions at VMware. They could be replaced with modern AI, but Eliza would suffice.
Chop chop useless VPs… chop chop.
“Stop asking about the structure and get back to work” is the BC motto
Just looking through the hierarchy on source and it's crazy, it must be a nightmare for Broadcom to figure out how to flatten this all out. Here is an example, Director with no reports, reporting to Director. How the heck can you be a director with no reports?? What are you supposed to be directing? Same for all these managers with no reports, who are you managing?
Directors with no reports are people that got promoted so high they had to give them a director title. I know at least two people in this scenario.
Just looking through the hierarchy on source and it's crazy, it must be a nightmare for Broadcom to figure out how to flatten this all out. Here is an example, Director with no reports, reporting to Director. How the heck can you be a director with no reports?? What are you supposed to be directing? Same for all these managers with no reports, who are you managing?
For those who don't want to copy paste a weird URL, and you shouldn't, below is just an image of the North Korean army marching in formation.
IC->Manager->Director->VP->HT
Pretty amazing but true. A manager at BC performs the same delivery and responsibilities that a combination of Manager+Sr. Manager+Director at VMWARE does (execution). A Director at BC is equivalent to a combination of Sr. Director+VP at VMware (strategy). The VPs perform similarly to CxO roles and are just seven, all reporting into Hock. The latter are all listed in BC's web site as the Executive team.
To conclude, a leadership team of 7 people for a $340B corporation, whereas VMW has 28 people as leadership team (per the info in the web site) of a $60B enterprise. That tells the story...
"And guess what... the fix is already in.
Top level BU management will probably be retained, even though they are the reason that the company so underperforms on the money-in:money-out equation.
This same management has, also, already re-arranged the deck chairs to protect certain people."
^^This has been my fear. I was hoping that this toxic culture and cult of personality/favoritism would be eradicated by Broadcom. Su-ks that those determining who stays and goes are a big part of the problem.
I'm guessing ~5 levels of management:
And guess what... the fix is already in.
Top level BU management will probably be retained, even though they are the reason that the company so underperforms on the money-in:money-out equation.
This same management has, also, already re-arranged the deck chairs to protect certain people.
(Ask yourself why there have been unusual BU internal reorgs in the past year,)
Just you to hock.. he can handle 30k direct reports with weekly 1:1’s. You can also text him with your daily complains and expect a response in 6 hours. The man is a machine… at 70. He also has time to run marathons.
I'm guessing ~5 levels of management: Hock → BU GM → VP →(Sr. Director / Director, depending on scope/experience) → (Sr. Manager / Manger, depending on scope/experience) → IC
It will go like customers—> partners—> broadcom/VMware.
It will also be very profitable.
Broadcom currently has 1 manager or supervisor for every 10 IC per their own public data. 10k employees, 1100 managers. I don’t believe the flat hype.
Monolith org structure. Most of the folks are good in doing politics and favoritism. They will go to any extent to save their a$$. Would love to see flat org with no drama. Only good work and pay.
Flatter...
This was discussed a few times already, as recently as last week:
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1oTquqRd
You'll find out at the same time as everyone else.
There will be Hock > You. 10s of thousands of people reporting directly to Hock. Super flat.
Really, you post this like anyone here knows the answers? lol. We are all in the same leaky boat with no paddles.
There’s been plenty of posts on this already. New org structure will be much flatter, think about 4 layers or so before you reach Hock. It’s already known current VMware VP’s have been told who they will report to, and it’s 1 person and then Hock. Below then will likely only be 2 more layers with employees and managers. So that’s 4 layers and then Hock, as compared to VMware’s 7-10 layer bean dip model.
Cant you just wait for 2 more weeks you mo--n. You have been already waiting for 52+26 weeks