So I’m from VMware and have a quick question for the team at Broadcom. Given many of you know the benefits that VMware offered their employees and the jibes that you have given VMware for being Woke or snowflakes etc, I wondered if Hock had added those policies to the Broadcom business would you have taken them or would you have refused them? Thinking WFH, Training $$$, 18week paternity, etc etc. Now there are some benefits/culture that VMware offered that were strange and not sure who benefited from them.
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Vmware customers will also appreciate it.
Hard to take care customers when your employees can't leave fast enough. And those that do stay are full of resentment.
Is this how adults act?
Having experienced trying to get anything done working with vmware as a partner, for years, and not getting a single thing accomplished, I am looking forward to the adults stepping in and fixing the problems that impacted vmware's success. Vmware customers will also appreciate it.
Symantec had all the cr-p too. All of those benefits cost money and take away from the bottom line. Looks good on paper but bad at making money. Our stock never deviated more than $10 during my multi-year time there. Here AVGO stock gains multiples of that in a day.
I was fine with letting the office kegerator and food go, I never played foosball anyway, etc. I gladly traded all of that stuff for a stock that so far has been a rocket ship.
I can buy my own fu--ing beach house, stock it with a foosball table, snacks and kegerator if I want. The financial freedom is worth it.
When I see a Broadcom employee use the term "woke", it reinforces my decision to decline the offer and seek employment elsewhere. No WAY I could sit in a windowless cubicle next to a MAGA cultist who supports policies that benefit executives at the expense of the workforce that enriches them, believing the scraps and crumbs they accept make them equals.
I agree, Broadcom employees have very low expectations. We exist in quiet compliance and are grateful to still be employed at our age. I'm not here for the benefits.
Age discrimination is common in America, and so where else would we go?
Broadcom Software is home to CA and Symantec employee leftovers and many are near retirement age and are just there for a paycheck. Others came from IBM and are equally unmotivated. So, benefits don't matter when you work in this type of environment.
I am from now defunct VMware.
Paternity leave does not apply.
MBA school not worth it for me.
WFH is awesome but I used to go to office before COVID.
I prefer money, lots of them so I can buy a big house for my ageing parents and take them on first class holidays.