Do these tards actually call each other this? actually take pride in an irrelevant product and a negative revenue producing BU. cant wait till Hock axes it.

Anyone know how long it's been taking others to get their severance paid out? Broadcom states "within 45 days." Just wondering if people gotten them sooner. Transition employee here... just moved over to HCL.

Very happy to see that Sofia office was not affected much by the layoffs. My concern is that there is so many teams not generating any revenue and hiding under VC revenue bracket, not sure how sustainable this would be. Most of the teams has so many... — read more 

AVGO stock will rise Tuesday. More vacant buildings in Stanford, California will get great rent for our company.

Their numbers seem inflated always

It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer - Computershare CTO says he got a bill 15 times his previous quote. The AVGO "Demolition Man" applies his playbook. https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/22/computershare_vm_migration_project/ — read more 

I have been acquired by Broadcom. how long did it take after acquiring you guys until they started doing layoffs?

I can't wait for the Transition folks (toxic ones who are envious) to finish there time soon and go on there gaga vacation which they have been harping about. They are ensuring nothing is working and managed and becoming bottle necks and creating... — read more 

Meta relationship will drive Broadcom stock above 2000. Dont be stunned if all others like Nvidia, SMCI and AMD will crash this week. Thank Hock Tan in first week of June.

If this account and support migration gets any worse, I'm going to start thinking that the former VMware IT leaders are in charge of it. It's as if one person were walking along the edge of the Grand Canyon carrying a huge stack of file boxes... — read more 

I keep reading the employees are getting offers for HCL? Is this PSO and GSS?

Does Broadcom offer long service awards at 3 years, 4 years, etc. ? Where can we get more information on the same ?

The current leadership is significantly eroding corporate value. Why isn't there a smooth takeoff? The answer lies in their indifference to customer expectations. Many customers in various regions are disappointed. They are committing a fatal and... — read more 

We now provide a Free Personal Use or a Paid Commercial Use subscription for our Pro apps. Users will decide based on their use case whether a commercial subscription is required. This means that everyday users who want a virtual lab on their Mac... — read more 

I love Broadcom and Hock Tan. Thank you for all the RSUs and hikes. In office work is actually great for collaboration and skills development. Cafeteria up and running makes work from office desirable.

I've spent the last 14 years of my career invested deep into VMware. I was always sure it was a safe horse to bet on. I never imagined the brand would be destroyed so rapidly. VMware was once an easily accessible tech used everywhere and mostly... — read more 

Client inquiries about VMware have skyrocketed. To answer many of their questions, they published a new report that helps tech leaders understand what VMware changes mean to them and how to navigate the VMware situation... — read more 

Close the Cairo office and force NASA to work weekends. Now the weekend is filled with scared, underqualified TSEs, Monday/Friday is understaffed, and "I don't want to work weekends" is the number one reason TSEs are quitting. Great job, Hock! Once... — read more 

AWS has begun encouraging VMware customers to migrate on-premises VMware workloads directly to Amazon’s own EC2 instances. So, expect more changes... https://www.fierce-network.com/cloud/heres-why-broadcom-ditching-its-aws-channel-partnership — read more 

Are all EUC employees being transitioned to Penta? Some kind of holding company?

From Robert Ruleas : I am so excited to launch our new company name: Omnissa https://www.omnissa.com/ 😁 . We are still a company of Broadcom until we launch as a separate independent company in a few months. While lots of things might be... — read more 

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/bosses-mandated-them-back-office-151534578.html

I didn't make it when the acquisition was finalized, but it'd be nice to know if I'm better off with what I received versus what I would have gotten had I been laid off while at Broadcom.

VMware Cloud on AWS - here today, here tomorrow? Gone next month? Who knows? https://www.broadcom.com/blog/vmware-cloud-on-aws-here-today-here-tomorrow When you alienate employees, customers and major partners, you pay the price. Winston Churchill... — read more 

Reading these 'shocker' headlines about people being let go, the latest wave of layoffs, support being outsourced etc etc, screams lack of knowledge about how many employee protections you actually have whilst living in the EU. Yes, even whilst... — read more 

When would this stop? I love the RSUs but cant calm down and feel my name will be called. I already work on the NSX ALB product that no one dares to touch and multiple customer issues. I'm not even sure why VMware acquired this product in the first... — read more 

Looks like Tanzu is taking a big hit today. Please post here if you have any news or updates. A number of folks whom I work with in India were let go. Waiting to hear about impact in other locations.

https://cispe.cloud/cispe-statement-on-most-recent-broadcom-concessions/

It's just that the people selling it that are saying it's dead. Yes it's true that the reseller agreement expired and they have no reason to sell it anymore, and in fact are actively trying to convert customers to EC2. But that doesn't mean it's... — read more 

Lots of senior cattle from VMW IT-SAP fulltime. Sleeping Hock wake up. Stock needs to go up.

Did anyone in US receive any communication over the weekend about layoffs or separation? Lot of rumors flying around. So asking.

https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cloud/vmware-takeover-by-broadcom-mistake I agree with the premise of the article, however, why was VMware sold and was it a mistake? There is only one reason and one reason only, Michael Dell and Silver Lakes owned... — read more 

Just curious as lots of the woke gang said they surge on in Broadcom

New wave of layoff in unexpected countries in Europe was sent this morning in unexpected countries. Be aware

All CloudHealth sales/marketing/technical support will be outsourced to Arrow Electronics, Inc. Not at all surprised. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. Time to move on to other endeavors. Peace Out....

If you can't make it at Broadcom it's not on anybody else but you. Stop crying about an evil company or whatever else excuse you can come up with. You're just not good enough or you're not a good fit. Just saying, accepting reality would serve some... — read more 

I am Seagate engineer with about 20+ years of experience in seagate. If I had been laid off in seagate - I would have got about 42 weeks of severance package. Had a question for VMWare folks - when broadcom laid off vmware engineers - did they... — read more 

I thought not being laid off would be a good thing, but I was so incredibly wrong. This is not the VMware I knew and liked working at anymore. And unlike many, I have no intention of staying and continuing to work for a company that I hate. Life is... — read more