Enough with the Dooms Day Posts - A different perspective

This website is intended to give news on layoffs. Not sit there and trash the company you were perfectly OK with before layoffs.

I work for VMW, and have for over 5 years. And I've seen good and bad times. Ive seen changes and Ive seen people come and go. Here are my two cents. If you dont care for them, don't read them and move on rather than trash me for giving my opinion and a different point of view.

I am in the field, and I see things first hand.

A few years ago, things s---ed. Things looked grim. Companies saw us as another vendor that had it's moment in time and didn't know how to stay relevant. NOT THE CASE TODAY. I've seen accounts come back and see us as partners. Believe in NSX, Cloud Foundation, VMC on AWS. Believe in AirWatch and rip out Citrix and come to us for major deployments.
I see huge accounts building their strategy around VMW products and moving forward with ELA's that were on hold or non existent.
Ive seen accounts go to Hyper-V and come back because that tragically failed. Ive seen accounts go to Azure and spend alot of money coming back to VMW. Ive seen accounts make the decision to dump VRA and go to competitors. Ive seen accounts dump VROPS and go to Turbonomics. And then I see those same accounts come right back and go all-on on VMWARE.

These observations ARE NOT anomalies. They are the norm for large accounts.

Companies this size have layoffs. Directors change, jobs change, and they then use these re-alignments as a way to dump low performers (not saying all people laid off are low performers)
They also eliminate jobs and move them over seas which is not the right choice but as a publicly traded companies shareholders have the last say on what we do.

What I READ ON HERE IS NOT REALITY. No company is perfect but this daily bashing of VMW and Pat G is not the truth. I talk to VMW employees every day that adore their job and have no plans to get on the market.

VMW is still a great place to work and it does have some of the drawbacks and pains of an ever-changing company. Enjoy the ride because nothing lasts forever.

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Why are you on this site if you’re not impacted by the layoff? Please take internal PR elsewhere.

I agree on the communication front. We have received zero internal communications on the last round of layoffs, even after it happened. Very disrespectful. We are the engine that makes this company better and you spit in our face?

It’s better to pay operator of this site than penning up fake article pretending not to be HR. After all, it works on Glassdoor review and the whole top 100 thing that has been a running joke on campus for years.

Would all be a lot easier if redundancies would be communicated internally, rather than getting a call at 12pm, asking whether I can handover my work to someone because it is my last day after 5+ yrs whilst people still on probation wonder if they still have a job. All that whilst you hear how great we are doing with Pat standing outside HQ promoting EPIC values. It isn't necessarily about the fact there are layoffs, but about the communication, or lack thereof.

Easy to say when you're a director and getting tons of money and don't have to worry about your job.

The point is the company is doing great why does Dell have to screw that up but more importantly it's doing great and we're all worried about our jobs what kind of an environment does that foster.

Consider all the good people I got laid off and their families while you sit there with your current job you might be next.

Yeah, this isn't a corporate cheerleading site. Save it for the VMware community blog.

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