Former CA, Symantec or other employees that joined broadcom via acquisitions, how was the experience working there for the first year?
Asking from the perspective of vmw acquisition
What is the “success profile”?
Symantec here - you will continue to shed people that first year. They bring over more than they need because people will continue job hunting and leave, hate it and leave, not adapt to the “success profile” and leave, or just not hack it and be shown the door. They also are making wild guesses on what they will and won’t need from a staffing and skill set perspective so some of the people offered temp roles will be hired and some people will be cut if they tweak the product. The GMs are told a headcount number that they need to be at by the end of the fiscal year and it’s up to them to make it. It’s easier for them to shed as they go.
Speaking as former CA. It is BU and role specific. In mainframe, very few people were let go at and after the acquisition. Most were in non-R&D roles. The distributed BU was much different. R&D has been hit hard over the past four years. It went from around 3500 people down to 1200 over that time. It is all a numbers game. Your BU needs to meet a profit margin. If you don't make that margin then you will lose people. It is a simple as that.