Actually it was around 10 or so, and it was for performance.
How bad do you have to be to lose your job during transition, when the company is least able to monitor individual performance?
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There was no massive layoffs on 11.10 . This is stupid fake news
I know. Most fearmongers try to spread fake news for the future. But I see this idi--t try to spread fake news that happened in the past.
There was no massive layoffs on 11.10 . This is stupid fake news
The bulk of VCF engineering will be gone after VCF9 release.
I made it through round 4 of “The Hunger Games” and yes they changed the rules.
Managers are jittery at best.
The Hunger Games!!!
Each layer is trying to eliminate the layer below them. Hopefully they will figure out who will remain as the org flattens. The toxicity is at 1000.
Just feed people what ever bull they want to hear. That is how totalitarian systems work. Hopefully the central planners know what they are doing.
VMware management is not “blissfully clueless about what is happening”. They are anything but blissful and are living in the same state as everyone else (clueless about what is happening and waiting for the hammer to drop)
too many middle managers but I don’t believe they had any say in who was let go
Agree. VMware management is blissfully clueless on what is happening even in their org. They don't know anything what is happening in other orgs.
Compartmentalization dividing project into separate parts, where each team or individual only has access to the information necessary for their specific tasks.
Silos keeping information within a specific team or department, isolated from other parts of the organization.
Very little communication to employees. No general discussion on what the company is doing. Employees are left to just watch external marketing material to even guess what is going on.
General atmosphere of deep distrust of leadership and colleagues. Fear and anxiety. Run a totalitarian org and manipulate people for the desired outcomes.
DEI and migrants will be gone soon. That will be enough. Then they can finally shut down most of VMware. Just keep the basic products so that they don't get sued by investors.
@ Palo Alto is run by 1d10ts - you may be right about too many middle managers but I don’t believe they had any say in who was let go. Who gets canned always comes as a surprise. It’s as if it’s done by AI. This company is just weird.
The woke DEI wave is passing. Can’t happen soon enough. What does this have to do with layoffs?
Just a small change in strategy. Few DEI employees were reassigned.
Here is a list of large public corporations that dropped their commitments to DEI this summer:
Tractor Supply (~50,000 employees; market cap: ~$32 billion)
John Deere (~80,000 employees; market cap: ~$111 billion)
Ford Motors (~177,000 employees; market cap: ~$44 billion)
Lowes (~300,000 employees; market cap: ~$160 billion)
Harley-Davidson (~11,000 employees; market cap: ~$5 billion)
Brown-Forman Corp. (~ 6000 employees; market cap: ~$23 billion)
Molson Coors (~16,000 employees; market cap: ~$11 billion)
Stanley Black & Decker (~50,000 employees; market cap: ~$16 billion)
Toyota (~380,000 employees; market cap: ~$270 billion)
Boeing (~170,000 employees; ~$95 billion)
Another FUD post. It's fun to see layoff post every other week from scared people.
All the H1bs will be gone. Trump will just deport them. We will be just left with DEI. At this point it really doesn't matter how many they fire. VMware will implode in a couple of years.
Nothing new and it’s their culture. By now, everyone should be immune and have to learn how to deal with it. Until the job market improves, you are kinda stuck yeah.
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The layoff was not due to performance issues as it included some of the best and brightest in the company - the people that knew what they were doing in their areas, people that knew how to fix things, and people that knew how badly Broadcom is sc--wing up. That you would throw out a blanket post saying it was due to performance shows you are an 1d10t with no knowledge of what took place. Broadcom's multiple layers of unnecessary middle managers are continuing to protect themselves and sacrificing the actual knowledgeable workers that know what they are doing and know which managers are a problem. That really is the biggest problem with the company at present - too many layers of middle managers creating churn and chaos pretending they have answers when they do not. HT is going to figure it out at some point and when he does, that useless middle management layer is toast.
Love it, it’s like a dystopian movie.
“If you are here, you are fired”
Now GTFO
SDE had layoff on Thursday via a WEBINAR!! Not sure how many were affected as it was a blind invitation with no chat.