Two thirds of the company - gone!
How this hasn’t reached the tech journalists is beyond me.
So here is your easy headline article journo heads, now do your research.
A few articles on Hock Jong Un’s winning managment style, err dictatorship, would be appreciated.
It will be 30,000 with only 7,000 remaining. Actually, make that 6,999 because I forgot myself.
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Nice manipulation Hock
Take it easy baby, take it as it comes…
Layoff's start again next week. Let's bring that sh-t!
What roles don’t have mandatory RTO?
Sales? Why? So few customers.
RTO mandates are another way to hide this number.
For what it's worth, this mandated also disproportionately effect women.
They care.
The milk came out my nose!
"Nobody cares about EUC."
The people who work at Omnissa care about UEM and VDI, two old software apps still used by some large enterprise companies that are clueless about modern alternatives. We will milk this cash cow for what it's worth, even in the face of more layoffs. Hock rejected our BU, but we found a fool in KKR to fund our graceful decline. They care.
only 16,000 remain >> Why vmware head count is 16K. It has to be reduced to 7K soon. Let the cuts begin.
Omnissa is fu-knissa. Same old clan re-inventing themselves using much hyped AI.
Fu-k Omnissa. Nobody cares about EUC. Please go away.
The sales pipeline has declined rapidly at Omnissa, and we expect more layoffs in 2025
It’s not done yet unfortunately. I got wind of a new wave for the new year….but don’t take my word for it….its the playbook that is standard operating procedure for a private equity type company.
VCF has settled a bit so that’s the next natural place to take a hit. It’s unfortunately the next on the hit list.
However, Hock is not different than the most ruthless CEOs, other companies are looo g at the market and thinking the same with regard to cuts.
Take it easy and don’t worry about it, you’ll get another job, just endure the right of passage….
You’ll be just fine.
This is the way!
The Monday after the acquisition was finalized, VMware staff were told via email they were being let go at 10 am cst.
We had no managers. We had no info from broadcom. After that, week by week I watched by it colleagues slowly be laid off.
What happened next was all the remaining IT staff were converted to contractors and then shortly after their contracts were terminated.
This is how broadcom hid the layoffs.
It was, but not this top heavy.
Send your logs to /dev/fu
Layoffs are never good but maybe VMware was way too heavy?
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I call it "coffee fhock"
Hock proudly reported that number in his most recent “coffee talk”, or as I like to call
It, the “sit down and STFU meeting”
How do you know how many are left ?
Broadcom's HR and PR teams were able to avoid an accurate reporting of the total layoffs, utilizing the methods that many large tech companies use to hide the impact.
Meanwhile, their AI story development is now front and center in the tech media. Mission accomplished: one of the greatest headcount reductions in Silicon Valley history was achieved without a transparent assessment of the human toll. AVGO profitability gains have been brutal.
Out of 37,000 VMware employees before the acquisition, only 16,000 remain, and layoffs continue.