This will put China in a good negotiating mood. https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/24/nvidia_chip_ban_imposed_already/

Is that indicative of the deal closing on oct 30? What about China approval? Will Broadcom move ahead without China?

Happy upcoming weekend to all our friends a colleagues in Palo Alto. Next Monday will be Grosse Merde Day in Paris as we welcome AVGO turds. Bonne nuit

“This message is being delivered at the request of Broadcom IT leadership to all current VMware Employees regardless of role or status moving forward once the transaction closes. It is not an offer of employment or indicative that an offer will be... — read more 

After over 9 years at VMware, and having reached the P6 IC level, I was really looking forward to joining Broadcom. Yes, I received a full-time (FT) offer. However, I decided to decline. First of all, I am a naturalized U.S. citizen (no visa... — read more 

How many people in tanzu product , sales , csm etc have received offer letter from Broadcom ?

Is VMware operationally sound and focused on customer value? Ever tied to process an order? Deal with a broken/missing license? Ever had a dozen sales people fight over credit on a sale and never think about what the customer is trying to achieve?... — read more 

what if China announces approval today just like South Korea did last Friday after market close? Idk just throwing theories out there 🤷🏾‍♂️

No enough fear and anxiety have been delivered to the workers. You have not yet completely broken their spirit. WTf? I thought you were ruthless. You can do better. Be creative.

Seems like the next F’d up thing that will happen. How can all this get worse? Thanks VMware leaders for driving the company off the cliff and into chaos. Great job. I hope you get your CIC money delivered as pennies dropped on your mansion... — read more 

What happens to the un-vested RSUs when you're offered a severance/layoff? On the contrary: What happens to your original vesting schedule of your existing RSUs from VMware if you're given an offer? Also: If you're given a transitional role, do... — read more 

Do they still need approval from regulators? Curious for EUC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xs7zeof-NA

I am happy for those who got theirs, but they have now managed to bring up the anxiety level for those of us who received nothing from a 5 to a solid 10. Couldn't they have waited and done it all at the same time? This is starting to feel like... — read more 

I can't believe for a company that pride's itself on EPIC values the VMW leadership couldn't even give a proper goodbye or farewell to all the staff before acquisition closes. Big big management failure as we are nearing the close of the acquisition... — read more 

Perhaps you're wondering why the VMW End User Computing group is in focus. The Leading Industry Analysts have described the legacy Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) markets as saturated and obsolete (when... — read more 

Stay resilient and proud, no matter where you are. Brush off any negative vibes, especially from those who exhibit arrogance. It'd be amazing if all our colleagues who receive offers decide to move on. Broadcom's lack of concern for people means they... — read more 

Capital costs more than doubled. High quality corporate bond interest rates went from 2% to 6%. Leveraged Buyout doesn't make sense with the way interest rates went from 0.25% to 5.25%. 2100% increase. Market doubled the share price of avgo. The deal... — read more 

To be honest I think Hock has a plan B incase he doesn't get approval in time but I still think the deal will close on 30th like he's been saying. But all the uncertainty doesn't help, I just wish we have more info to conclude it all.

There have to be. Our whole group didn't get any and I know we're not the only ones. I know Broadcom is layoff-happy when it comes to acquisitions, but even if they wanted to they can't get rid of whole departments just like that. I do hate how... — read more 

Are they and the entire Customer Success team going to HCL or have folks in those groups been retained by BC - but with more junior level titles?

For anybody who has received the offer or welcome letter from BC, does it say anything about severance if we chose to decline the offer?

I’m at a loss here. I’m not Trying to sit back and speculate based on rumors or made up BS, but the fact that offers stopped flowing after they said they’d be going out all week, entire BU’s have not heard a peep, Carbon Black held a all-hands call... — read more 

Anyone have any idea on this?

If you’re a lower level VMware employee getting crumbs for RSUs while higher ups make millions with their RSU allotments you have to wonder why you’d bust your a-s at Broadcom. This is outrageous financial inequity in action. Pay attention to the... — read more 

Gotta get the China approval within next 10 hours, otherwise deal won't close on monday. What's the plan B? The previous failed deals like the Qualcomm one and the Intel/Tower case, none of those moved forward to this stage. In neither of those... — read more 

executive leaders, you have seen what they are doing by yourself senior engineers or tech leaders, really talented are all gone already junior engineers, the best is leaving, since greedy leaders took all the money will also leave soon, good luck... — read more 

We have not heard from anyone in China got Broadcom offer. Has BC decided to close down the VMware China completely? Is that a possibility?

BC is still optimistic about Monday. If not Monday, then a couple of days later. Someone familiar with the matter.

Where is a copy of the merger agreement located? I was sent the link a while back but can't seem to locate it. Thank you!

I hope and pray this is delayed and this POS company has to keep paying us while China delays

How are we feeling about the acquisition. I might be letting the stress get the better of me but I realized we don't have any core teams based in Ireland right now. We have few support engineers in cork and few engineering folks in dublin but... — read more 

The whole thing is starting to look like a badly written soap opera.

In the past layoffs VMware kept you on payroll for 60 days and then the severance kicks in. Do we know if it’s the same for transition severance? It says 4 months base plus 1 week/year. I wonder if we stay on payroll first and then we get severance... — read more 

When will offers start to be released in EMEA?

Is that accurate? Anyone knows where that is specifically stated?

Possible speculations are: There are errors in offers, which they'd like to avoid next time. For example random manager assignments etc. The offer/portal/FAQ asks people to reject offer (by resigning) and yet be subject to severance pay... — read more 

There was a NYSE pending action to delist on Monday. I can’t find it now though, is it still happening?

Don’t expect any offers to come out today or tomorrow. The canceling of the vmw all hands today and the fact that no offers were distributed yesterday speaks volumes. BC and VMW have doing nothing to calm the markets fears about the deal being... — read more