So If I have understood correctly the ones in this list will receive anyway an offer from Broadcom (a proper contract?) and then eventually be laid off from Broadcom? Or anyway we will know our fate end of October anyway but it will require some few... — read more 

Some Sr.Directors in Core Sales are now telling ICs that they are on a pick list of potential hires and freaking them out. This will not end well. The way VMware has handled this and the politics and behaviour afterwards have convinced me that I no... — read more 

Do new hires typically still receive the minimum severance (2 months) in these scenarios even if they're still on probation?

What tone-deaf, self-involved mo--n thinks it's appropriate to continue to post sh*t about going to McLaren races? How is this valuable to anyone's morale? Customers? For someone that has absolutely nuked their reputation in the field and has been... — read more 

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vmware_techeducation-innovation-activity-7109435333078904833-cA84/ I'm not residing in Egypt and I'm damn impatient to grab hold of that severance package!

You can imagine the feelings of those people like me going to start @vmware in a few days …wtf

Though I am remote, I would be happiest for the Palo Alto folks if they make it a grand success that will never be forgotten. This is not the end of life

I am sure vmware has much better software talent that BC. Then why wouldn't they consider laying off from their own software divisions?

Ever since it was clear the deal was gonna go through, my boss seems to have doubled down on work and also the asks to my team. I can’t believe anybody who “knows nothing” about what is going to happen would behave this way. Now, he may not know... — read more 

Does anyone know if the letters have already started to be sent in the United States?

Is there any information about employees who will either be part of transition or get a permanent employment whether they will be asked to relocate (if they are in a place where there is no Broadcom office)? Apologies if this has already been... — read more 

Broadcom will get a much different company than it expected, at least when it comes to its workforce.

Will we be asked to return our home office monitors and other accessories, if we are let go, or just the laptop?

I heard rumors that the Specialists will be laid off in the 1st wave. Can anybody confirm this or heard the same?

Viewed a few comments from folks that emails sent 16th+4 will contain offers Transition BC offer Question please? When it safe to say you are Day 1. From comments only after Close. Post closing? So Folks could be navigating their teams, not... — read more 

I heard from the VPS townhall, that broadcom will be keeping people based on their GitHub commits? Do you think that's a good metric?

You have townhall today, what do you expect to happen? I wish I could create a poll here: I already have a job/jobs offer I have interview/interviews lined up fate is my master

Will this dissapear to partners when the merger is done? What do you think?

I have a staff of healing and a ring of fireball too. Do these need to be turned if we are eliminated?

Why do we have highly-paid individuals for low-level work, such as Business Intelligence (BI), Data Governance (DG), and Data Quality (DQ) in the CDTO group? We often say, 'If you don't want to work on critical P1 applications, work in BI; you'll... — read more 

Any one has idea on this? Thanks.

So people can either focus on work, or focus on finding another job, rather than one month in a mess?

I don't know about you, but after last week's all hands, this all anybody has been talking about on internal calls that don't have managers on them and I suspect that people have pretty much checked out or quiet as crickets on those that have... — read more 

Getting rejects from everywhere. Anyone with similar experience. Feels like this is the worst time to be looking for a job with VMware in your resume.

Now what?

Unlike many other tech companies having a lots of "start-up-like" projects or some divisions for getting into new business, Broadcom only focus on most profitable parts to archive strong "GDP per capita". Divisions with less profitability are fragile... — read more 

An internal post in Slack glorifying our people and culture was very well received by the loud minority. We can't argue there as it will be seen as non inclusive. Our people are just like other people in other companies. No we're not the top 1%... — read more 

I am in one of the ops teams, and I am 99% sure I will be let go on day 1. I am just so tired with all the BS and toxic environment. How can I be laid off tomorrow and still get the severance and retention bonus?

If you are being honest with yourself, and I mean really honest. Would it make any difference to VMware / Broadcom, if you were asked to leave tomorrow? I'm not talking about macro details that you have work for customer X to do, or some webinar... — read more 

Anyone know? I’m hearing transition roles are handled by a third party contractor and it won’t be under BC payroll

Do we have any insight on how Vmware BUs are restructured for joining Broadcom.

I don't see any mention of Spring (an open source Java development framework) in the history of Broadcom's acquisition. Has anyone heard what the future will look like? I don't think we know for sure, so even if it's at the rumor level, that's fine. — read more