If you can't make it at Broadcom it's not on anybody else but you. Stop crying about an evil company or whatever else excuse you can come up with. You're just not good enough or you're not a good fit. Just saying, accepting reality would serve some of you good.
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What the hock is goin on here ?
All anyone has to do to get a gauge on BC'c culture is to take a drive in Santa Clara and drive past their old headquarters. Its almost next door to Nvidia. Nvidia has a stunning looking campus with amazing architecture. Its hard to describe but the feeling I get driving past that is: " That looks like the kind of place I'd like to work". Drive past BC's campus and its an anonymous looking gray building from the 80's. The feeling I get seeing their campus is: "That would feel like going to work at a cubicle farm".
Those at VMware who tested EPIC2 discovered it was a complete fraud. VMware's pit ponies were even more pathetic than Broadcom's since they did not know they were deep in the dark.
A 'pit pony', otherwise known as a mining horse, was a horse, pony or mule commonly used underground in mines from the mid-18th until the mid-20th century. They lived sad lives in the darkness.
Careful now there are people here who would blame you for reading out things from Wikipedia, apparently they prefer ChatGPT.
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The original poster said "Just saying, 'accepting reality' would serve some of you good."
Perhaps if you accept that there is no hope of a better Broadcom culture, then you simply give up and become fully compliant with HT's demand that employees abandon any desire for work/life progress.
The thought of embracing HT's version of 'accepting reality' is depressing to me. So, I will leave when I can. I'm done trying to understand what motives these short-sighted people.
I don't blame Broadcom for everything that has damaged VMware's market position, but the legacy Broadcom employees remind me of a Pit Pony whose spirit has been broken.
A 'pit pony', otherwise known as a mining horse, was a horse, pony or mule commonly used underground in mines from the mid-18th until the mid-20th century. They lived sad lives in the darkness.
I've tried empathizing with the Broadcom employee's plight, but they seem soulless.
I have been disappointed in the remaining VMware leadership. EPIC2 values long gone, I'm not talking DEI or vanity projects. Its people saying good job, well done, do you need a hand.
At VMware i could say I need xyz and 5 people would offer to help, now 0 people. Too many people trying to protect themselves...
So I cant blame Broadcom for everything, because the VMware leadership that remained is doing a poor job. No communication, no actual plans for growth, no idea what is going on.
Just because people don't share your principles/values don't make them shallow. Are you going to take care of their families, pay their mortgages/bills, children's school fees etc. if they chose to leave for a job market already saturated with applicants and recently laid off employees? Each to their own please...
"BC has no culture. It simply exists to do one thing only which is make money."
The AVGO cult has retained the most obedient and shallow people in the tech sector. While we all agree that we work for compensation, the difference is that some of us still have a soul and refuse to worship Hock Tan and the mercenary leaders at Broadcom.
"We stayed, under a false promise "
go then?
Will do, as soon as the job market improves. We're eager to leave behind people like you.
I got the message as soon as the acquisition was announced and found another job. In hindsight that was probably a really good idea because the people I know who got kept at BC are now completely miserable, over-worked and under the nearly constant threat of being laid off. That and the job market is a complete and total disaster with none of the people I know who got laid off finding new jobs regardless of their skills or experience.
BC has no culture. Its simply exists to do one thing only which is make money. There seems to be very little concern for the employees. That is rather sad. The only good thing I've heard is that you get paid well assuming you can hold on to your job long enough.
"It's clear to me that the Broadcom leadership team had bred a culture of angry, mean-spirited employees ..."
It's clear to me that the VMware leadership team had bred a culture of angry, mean-spirited EX-employees...
Fixed it for you
"We stayed, under a false promise "
go then?
Make it?
What exactly constitutes 'making it'? This isn't Broadway. It's a job to pay bills.
Out here in the real world people have ethics, concerns and preferences. This may come as a surprise to you but they are well within their rights to air their concerns.
I'm sorry you're drowning in the capitalism Kool-Aid.
It sounds like you're too far gone to offer a lifeline. Maybe go and get your Prostate checked?
I have an epic idea! Why don’t people anonymously argue online knowing they will not change the other persons mind and the chance one of them is just a troll… that will be super productive and healthy
@OP - wait for 2-3 yrs and you will find that whoever is left behind at VMW is just like you. Robots who will jump to say “Hail Hock” every time he appears on your computer screen. Anyone sane or having wish to progress in their careers would have been laid off or left. Everyone will have the mean spirit. Till the next acquisition.
Oh and maybe learn to spell
Good for you, ChatGPT can do spellcheck for you, $hIthead
Wow, Broadcom is just a great company people are dying to join huh. Right up there with FAANG.. right?
The bi--h is not weak, cause truth is Broadcom is a sh-t company. But you need to act on your complains just don’t bi--h and do nothing. Nothing wrong with staying and doing the same sh-t for 25 years praying you are still needed. Nothing wrong to leave and have career progression either. Just pick a side.
Broadcom is the buyer VMware deserved. Deal with it.
"There were tons of articles on how Broadcom handles acquisitions, cost, customers, partners, etc."
Agreed. However, Hock Tan told VMware employees, customers, and partners that this acquisition would be different than the infamous trashing of CA and Symantec BUs.
We stayed, under a false promise - because he lied, again and again, as he trashed us.
It's clear to me that the Broadcom leadership team had bred a culture of angry, mean-spirited employees who truly believe that resistance is futile in their AVGO Borg.
Once you join their mercenary cult of mindless followers you give up the right to form your own opinion about what value means to the individual. The only value that HT and the Borg worship is the almighty dollar value of RSUs. They feed on envy and hate speech.
"A definition is a definition Jack@$$. Wikipedia or encyclopedia, you must he a hostage to ChatGPT."
And some of us dont need an A$$wipe like you to explain everything for them - some could even look it up for themselves. What a to$$er you really are. Typical of ex-VMware children
Oh and maybe learn to spell
Wow look at you learning wikipedia. What a div
A definition is a definition Jack@$$. Wikipedia or encyclopedia, you must he a hostage to ChatGPT.
"Stockholm syndrome is a proposed condition or theory that tries to explain why hostages sometimes develop a psychological bond with their captors. It is supposed to result from a rather specific set of circumstances, namely the power imbalances contained in hostage-taking, kidnapping, and abusive relationships."
Wow look at you learning wikipedia. What a div
Stockholm syndrome is a proposed condition or theory that tries to explain why hostages sometimes develop a psychological bond with their captors. It is supposed to result from a rather specific set of circumstances, namely the power imbalances contained in hostage-taking, kidnapping, and abusive relationships.
Finally someone calls it right - stop bleating and get on with it - or leave - it's not hard. VMware doesn't exist anymore and childish name calling and ranting won't bring it back.
It has been close to two years now that this acquisition was announced.
There were tons of articles on how broadcom handles acquisitions, cost, customers, partners, etc.
These were much debated here and elsewhere.
Is anything you are observing now a surprise? Is anything "new"?
Those of you whining and complaining were either sleeping this entire time, hoping things would be different, or plain unable to sell their own value to other organizations.
Hope is not a strategy, though.
But who is listening here? This is a board that feeds off the misery and has long lost its value as a real-time layoff tracker.
theyre just in general a soft group of people larping about DEI and their pronouns
I think a lot of VMware folk will not be a good fit for the Broadcom culture (not epic2 at all) but that doesn’t mean, not good enough.
The Stockholm syndrome is strong with this one.
"If you can't live in North Korea you're weak and deserve to be executed" is what you're saying. Are you a dictator.