Title - just a rant. Hate it here, but will coast for RSUs
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Who is John Galt?
VMware culture overall was overplayed and seemed good (unless you were hit by our biennial layoffs). Way too much middle management, the BU's didn't work together, too many horrible business decisions. Anybody else involved in trying to undo the broken SaaS licensing model for our customers? Do you realize for SaaS licensing, every product was done differently? Who does that? Maybe a company where all the BU's are their own little kingdoms and don't have to answer to anybody else. Well, now they do. Its tough right now, but these are changes that were way overdue.
@iqjg+1tsH4Fpc I mean, basically? What is the engineering staff supposed to do when the leadership makes a stupid decision? Mutiny? That's not how it works in the real world. Frankly, I don't get why "great culture" is such a trigger for you. People generally liked working at VMware. It happens.
"company can have incompetent leadership AND talented engineers"
... and that is a great excuse? Great culture?Okay. Whatever. Good luck to you since you don't want to acknowledge the outcome.
@hfeo+1tsH4Fpc I don't mean to blow your small mind, but sometimes a company can have incompetent leadership AND talented engineers. It's shocking, I know.
VMware fell behind because its leadership was fu--ing terrible. If anything, the engineers were frustrated over how many projects were scrapped at the last minute, or how team restructuring would occur ever few months.
"brain drain"
? If VMW had brain, why did it miss the cloud? Why did it miss container? Why was it acquired in the end by a scavenger?
While I think Broadcom is bad, VMW was narcissist. You think too highly of yourself.
VMware culture was great. The stagnation and brain drain following the acquisition announcement was not, though. Every one of our products seemed to enter "maintenance mode" - and that lasted for two years while we waited for something to happen.
Still, I'll never forget how toxic the chat became during the initial announcement meeting. There was an entire Slack channel dedicated to angry rants over the acquisition, eventually. The leadership couldn't even pretend that good things were on the horizon. It's no wonder both employee pools seem to despise each other these days...
Who is Miss VMware? Is she/he still employed?
"“Miss VMware culture, VMW >>> BC” …. Said the DEI hire …. So the statement that followed is no surprise!"
DEI? Another Broadcom piece of sht clown
“Miss VMware culture, VMW >>> BC” …. Said the DEI hire …. So the statement that followed is no surprise!
We know BroadBANK su*s
This is the way.
Until it isn’t.