I feel better off at the moment with the acquisition. Though I miss some coworkers terribly, I’m having a great deal of success working more quickly. If I want to deviate from an old process and try something out, I don’t have to jump through firey hoops and 400 levels of approvals. I’m still working face to face with customers and doing what I love so no changes there. I just find work moves a lot faster and email threads are a lot shorter when I only answer to one manager and the customers. Personally optimistic at the moment.
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Lol you can tell when you piss off the EMEA people by the number of minuses you get
I agree with the previous poster... I am also in support. They fired most of our managers and the remaining managers are leaning heavily on senior people for help. You should be viewing this a an opportunity but I bet most of you are sad that you can't just hide in the background anymore.
Quit crying about the acquisition. The world rewards those who have a plan and punishes those who sit on their butts. A lot of butt-sitters at CA are quaking in their boots right now...
There are much less layers of management. I'm now 3 layers below the CEO instead of 7 or 8. We (Support) are also being asked to do a lot less dumb busy work like proactive callbacks and chat. Love it!
LOL...the workflows/processes are identical in ES. It’s just CA b---s--- operating under the BCOM banner as far as I can see.
Well, just check out the job posts on the Broadcom website, and you can see that they are starting to hire again for Agile, Automic Automation, some Security positions as well but i think we will see more of those positions open up soon. And yes, there are new hires.
@XCMw9iE-1quj, this is an interesting post, as you mention the ESD. I'm the MFBU, there was very little change, except the elimination of the some problem employees that should have been gone long ago. But we've heard nothing from ES side. Even on products that worked with distributed teams, there has been no communication. What is the general feel on that side of the house? Are new hires coming? Are key products being invested in? The head count still seems to be heavily on the distributed side. Almost three to one.
Well, good for you. I guess in America the mentality is a bit different. I agree that approval chains are simplified now, which was indeed in issue previously, but if I look at the strategy for ESD and all the other decisions that have been made, I have yet to meet someone in Emea who's loving it.
Awww, is someone bitter?
I love it when bc hr resorts to fake positive new posts on this site.
I could not agree more. The culture is one of rapid execution and getting sh-- done. I'm loving it.