I think it is just short sellers trapped the bulls who bought at $500 aftermarket. But WTH. https://cloudinfra.blog/what-broadcoms-earnings-miss-means-for-cloud-ai-infrastructure-spending/ I lost $ of upper 5 digits today. Very Bad.

Bad

Looking on LinkedIn there is loads of Broadcom / VMW jobs coming up. I left as a Senior Technical Support Engineer and I am thinking of applying to go back in. Genuine question, how's life inside now? Would it be worth going back in

That's it. That's all I wanted to say.

This is the end game

We make air, openclaw to be new CEO at next coffe talk. Line of doom still dooming. Coffee badge cleared , just get your a-hole to the office. Hock has spoken, I obey and thank your sir, may I have another?

Can people share what severance package they got and timelines or any other info. Thanks

$200M comp? Can’t even buy your own private island. How can we help?

Many article came out recently about this Vmware exodus ... 86% actively eliminating... — read more 

Just got the axe today, no more resting and vesting. Didn’t expect it, was anyone else impacted today?

Looking for suggestions and ideas on ways to self nominate for RIF in the coming round.

Broadcom doesn’t have much of a “company culture” but now you realize that most of the VMware culture building events were meant to soften and obfuscate the pay gap between you and the millionaire executives. Now YOU are the millionaire.

VMware didn’t need all of those employees and Broadcom runs VMware with more efficiency and profitability than most of you thought was possible.

This thread is for info about potential VMware layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

Dear Team, As we gather with our families this holiday season – or, more accurately, as those of you within 50 miles of an office get your butts back in here to maximize collaboration and real estate utilization – I want to extend my warmest wishes... — read more 

Will there be layoff? No. But I know somebody will post this thread. Let's just talk about it.

This is yet another scary action against longtime customers. https://cloudinfra.blog/broadcom-vs-allstate-how-vmware-customers-became-legal-targets-and-why-delaying-an-exit-is-risky/

Can't they wait for the holidays to be over

Dead yet? Wondering how long the leadership can rest and vest doing nothing but errands for Uncle Hock. Lord knows nothing engineering related could have happened after I left the funhouse of mirrors that is bcom.

The Broadcom RSU money is life changing

On the sage advice of this forum I have been buying substantial numbers of put options on Broadcom stock and as of today I’m officially ruined. Wiped out to the tune of half a million dollars. How do I tell my wife? How can I look my children in the... — read more 

Broadcom is toast: https://cloudinfra.blog/fidelity-vs-broadcom-the-lawsuit-that-should-terrify-every-vmware-customer/

What is with the Tesco lawsuit? Seem Samsung as well? https://cloudinfra.blog/how-broadcoms-takeover-of-vmware-sparked-lawsuits-patch-access-fights-and-a-licensing-backlash/

I spent over 10 years in vSphere. Now that Broadcom bundled vSphere 9.0 and you can never buy alone, many alternatives are coming up. Proxmox is outdated. These guys are out of their mind. But I am seeing a few players. Some are ex-vmware employees... — read more 

39K before acquisition, how about now? How far to go to reach 7K or another number?

Anyone with old vmware / Broadcom shares what are you doing? I've over 100 from when I left and thinking of selling them but not sure when they keep going up

Quarter is not looking good

Gotta love these headlines, can’t make this up What will he do when there is no one left to fire? Ah, silly me. That means it is acquisition time!

What is happening with ESG? The coffee talk does not sound promising and any one know what the road map is and how much revenue its making.

L6 L7

That surpassed even the most optimistic scenario, no thanks to super expensive public cloud hyper scalers who got greedy.

With no accountability, it is a zoo. Velo zoo.

..so when exactly would the plug be pulled for the rest of this division, as we all know there is going to be a shift to partners? Some say end October/Start of November? What are you hearing?

What just happened in Cork. RTO mandate with such urgency and that too apparently illegally! My guess is they are forcing attrition more than anything