The severance is not for your benefit, it is for theirs. It has two purposes.
1) gets you to agree to give up any right to sue them, and
2) it lets them show remaining employees how well they’ll be treated when it’s their turn, thus helping with retention (i.e. making it more likely that Broadcom times your departure to fit their business needs).
There is no way that they would risk that to nickel-and-dime you as you leave.
"Broadcom is absolutely NOT looking for ways to avoid paying your severance."
It has already found it long time ago.
3) It keeps the regulators from paying too much attention to their business practices. The slash and burn leveraged buyout business practices in the 1980s lead to congressional hearings and ultimately became distasteful in the court of public opinion.
4) Broadcom has to demonstrate fair dealings in order to keep acquiring companies. Bottom line is that Broadcom is a financial engineering firm. It cannot sustain its business model (and Octane's 188m annual pay) if it doesn't keep gobbling up companies. CA is just a first domino in a long string of software acquisitions to come.
Some weirdo likes to claim the thoughts and words of others as their own and repost them anew. It's obnoxious.
Hey @admin !! I just posted the above message as a reply to @VZ6FQ9E (where it also appears). You should hire one of us CA Devs to fix your site. 😉