Do all Broadcom employees really fly coach? Does this include C level execs too?
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Exactly. Name any enterprise software product CA acquired in the past 10 or 20 years that was made better by CA. You can't...
Any product but mainframe unfortunately
What product might that be?
I almost hope they sell off my product, assuming I go with it. My particular product has been very poorly managed by CA since it was acquired years ago, maybe someone else can do better.
Most companies allow for business class travel over a specified travel time - from 6 to 14 hours. Even the US Government allows for business class travel for a 14 hour flight. I only think the people are concerned about flying to India in coach, especially when so many US jobs have been moved there in the first place.
That being said, it's the least of our worries. The first worry is if you will survive the rounds of layoffs. The second worry is if they will close your office. The third worry is if you are in a BU outside of mainframe and they decide to sell off the product. the fourth worry is if they kill your unprofitable project (Tensor, Incubator, Tesla, Innovation, etc).
It's been a bad strategy for a while, though it worked for shareholders and the executive team. Instead of funding innovation, product integration or product development, they funded more acquisitions, dividends and stock buy backs. They assumed as they acquired companies they could make them more profitable due to their superior sales team (chuckle chuckle). In the end they did pull off the biggest sale of all - the company itself.
Morning coffee and morning review of this site. I wish they posted the new comments on top. There is an internal post going on about this and people asking if it is true. I assume most of the people asking won’t have a real care about what the policy is because they will be fired anyway. Oh, and wait, if you don’t like it you can leave if they decide in the very unlikely event to keep you. I heard someone say that in a certain large office you have have less than a ten percent chance to even be kept. Which means not many people will have to worry about flying in economy. Entitled group of people. Welcome to the real world. CA is not looking so bad. Name another company that had day care on site and is profitable. Wait? You can’t. Yet and still, everyone is complaining about closing it and some people are asking “Is Broadcom aware?”, no they are not and they are going to bring It back once they take over. Entitled. Get used to it, you won’t get much come December 1.
It's amazing to me how spoiled some folks are. I've never flown anything but coach in my life including for personal travel because business class is expensive. And y'all act like you're entitled to it. Wow.
What’s unbelievable is that CA still has business class travel. Most tech companies don’t.
OP here. Oh I agree that if it’s true then I support it. It’s just hard to imagine a policy like this maybe after all these years. A blanket policy for all is one I’m onboard for. I wasn’t asking because I have issue with it. Just seems unbelievable in this day and age!
I’ve had to do it within CA so I’m not sure what the big deal is. Even if within policy sometimes the travel budget doesn’t cover biz class.
Yes, they do fly coach and I doubt any C level executives at CA will be staying so why do you care if their execs fly coach. This was asked and answered internally and I’m sure Broadcom is providing the answers. Seems stupid to think they would post something and later say we were wrong everyone gets to fly business class. Broadcom is all about the bottom line and it will be nice to work for a company that doesn’t waste shareholder money and get rid of the private planes.
Wouldn't it make more sense to post this question on Broadcom's Lay Off forum?
https://www.thelayoff.com/broadcom