Thread regarding VMware layoffs

This is very similar to the mid 90s when Novell made catastrophic mistakes. Many former Netware engineers became Netware removal machines.

It’s going to be a bumpy ride for BC and customer alike. Ex-Vmwarers could do very well in the contractor market in the next few years helping customers migrate onto hyperscalers. Good solid work with 6-12 month timelines. The managed decline of the VMware market by BC represents a great opportunity for those engineers willing to take a chance and win some business for themselves.

Drive customers away out of spite? You are just guaranteeing the layoffs that you fear.

Talk very openly with customers about how sh-t Broadcom is at every opportunity. They will get worried...and bored of hearing it and hopefully move on to other vendors.

I plan to inform my customers using - or planning to use VCF that BC plans to jack up prices in the next few years. Hopefully I can get them to move off VMware products asap. I won’t say it outright but I will strongly imply it and plant the seeds in their minds. It will be good fun. Eventually I will get found out when they notice that all the deals I touch seem to fall apart but I don’t care.

Don't worry, RSus win. We used to think, immediately post COVID, surely we'd have a 4 week schedule. Guess what : no 4 week schedule, and I now realize what an entitled pr--k I was to ask for one. Also now buying a cabin in the mountains.

We’re going to take you down from the inside.

Why are you worried about something that has already happened? We are anti bc and anti office.

Hanging around and RTO just to be an in house cancer. OTP with customers the same will be true, advising them how bad things are internally, that all the good people are leaving and that Proxmox & Hyper-V are the future. Burn this place down from the inside out.

First, you're obviously a VMware employee who is pretending to not be. I don't know why. Maybe to make others think that they have outside support?

The plan to eliminate up to 50% of VMware employees

Speculation on VMware sites.

The delays in regulatory approval.

Explained 10000 times over and VMW or Broadcom had zero control.

The clumsy and tone deaf RTO messaging.

Was pretty straight forward. I disagree, but Hock was blatantly honest in the Coffee Talk.

This will be hated and downvoted to he-l and back, but the acquisition could've been a lot worse. It had a one-month delay, and will take six months to fully incorporate. The delay was literally the only thing that went badly. The rest is standard for an M&A, including mass disruption, layoffs, and confusion. Boards know better and won't care.

Right on! Imagine a mutiny that cost “China su-king te-t Broadcom) Hick Tan the entire company. Today is the anniversary of of Enron bankruptcy - the old man needs to be ashamed at the pro Chinese BS.

Just as Hock considers merely financial gain, so do I. It’s a fair game. We’ll see how it plays out. I don’t have a work visa problem. Fire me at will.

This is now based on how easy it’ll be for customers to migrate away from vSphere. I don’t think anything else matters.

Then bring it up at the next all hands, or f*ck around and find out

For many, Broadcom is viewed merely as a source of financial gain, with the strategy being to do just enough to receive Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and then seek opportunities at better companies at the earliest chance. The reality, agreeable or not, is that a number of employees who have remained did so primarily to capitalize on these financial benefits, aiming to maximize their earnings. Given that Broadcom has offered a minimum of 100K to as much as 1.4M in RSUs, several individuals who were considering other career paths have chosen to stay in order to secure this financial advantage. However, this does not necessarily imply that they are motivated; in fact, many may do only what is strictly necessary. Just as Hock Tan has focused on his financial interests, the employees will focus on theirs. Ultimately, in this context, decisions are often driven by financial considerations.

It seems that Hock thinks he can do with VMW what he did with CA & Sym. I'm in no way talking down about CA or SYM, I know people at both and they are good engineers. But the world has changed in the last 5 years and talking to your employees like an a$$hole doesn't fly. I think Hock and the board will regret this acquisition. Spending 60 something billion to buy a company only to pi-s everyone off is not good business. What really pi---s me off is during the first meeting in PA after the buyout was announced, Hock was on with Raghu and others and said about our WFH and other polices "We will keep an open mind and consider the different cultures." He was obviously full of $hit and I don't mean just WFH. If you heard some of the answers on the coffee talk, he talks to people like he has a superiority complex. Again, that doesn't fly these days and he is about to find out. I think people will do the minimum required to not get outright fired and bail at the first decent opportunity. Why stay and put up with a CEO like that?