It’s so much easier to try to hold on to what’s known and easy, but this could be a wake up opportunity to better your skills or find something better and more meaningful. The sooner you deal with your fears the sooner your situation improves. I’m... — read more 

My manager told me to think about my role and add value. Should I be worried that he will fire me before Hock Tan? Or put me in pip or demote me?

Do you really believe that this decision will not be in your manager's hands? I mean probably not your direct manager, not your senior manager but I suppose Directors and Senior Directors give some inputs (maybe talking with managers and senior... — read more 

No one has commented on the status of contractors or at least I haven’t seen or heard anything. Has anyone else?

Give me that sweet severance money and I'll happily move on. Can we volunteer?

There is talk of a party on 13th October. Didn’t hear if this is just for Palo Alto or global - anyone else hear anything?

Just a big thank you for yesterday’s all hands.

Any guesses what will be the future of NSBU - VMC app? Will there by massive job cuts like other BU's?

Wondering how are folks feeling after a couple of days? BC, Transition, Package? I started at BC for security...moved to Transition(mahem) as my preferred choice..... Day1 package seems more appealing to me now. Any folks feeling the same? — read more 

Any news on what will happen to Labs and potential % of cuts? Esp public sector? Thanks!

I have 2 vcp certs and technical guru, so my job be safe because hock wants technical brians in the firm?

I really hope that company go BK or get acquired by someone like Alibaba

I remember it came out at the start of August that Broadcom was planning drastic job cuts after the acquisition. There was no need to say that at the time other than to scare people in hopes they'll pre-emptively walk away and save Broadcom severance... — read more 

A 3 second study was just undertaken in my mind and the conclusion was that the $50 millon payout to the CEO has a good chance of allowing him to remove himself from the CEO labor pool forever. If true, it means he will never harm another company. — read more 

Did anyone tell us how many people will be laid off?

No points working for a job that doesn't exist anymore.

Lots of speculation on the fate of duplicate roles, HR, IT, CB, EUC, Eng, Marketing, etc, etc, etc….but what about the sales orgs? Core, specialist, various segments, etc… How do the sales teams and salespeople fare in a Broadcom acquisition? The... — read more 

Nov. 1 immediately ?

We all know less revenue generating BU’s and teams will be chopped. But what teams that are critical to revenue generating teams? Build, SCM, Devops.. We can’t survive without these teams!

Thousands of us will lose our jobs and been living with uncertainty, while they are _still_ celebrating. There you have it. EPIC value at its best. Hypocrite.

I'm not saying they are going to use a random number generator. But with that many employees to evaluate, they aren't going to do much evaluation. They'll use some kind of metric based on seniority, pay, job function. Put it all on a spreadsheet... — read more 

As stated in the company meeting, Broadcom will be contacting us individually, without our managers having input or knowledge, to let us know our fate. We are going to be left in our team to be sharing the news with each other and our manager of who... — read more 

Some wicked sense of humor there

Based on TUPE regulation, any redundancies of more than 20 require a consultation process. “ If both your current and new employers agree, they can start collective consultation before the transfer. It must start at least 30 days before anyone is... — read more 

Get a Q3 bonus? I'll take it. Bald guy in a mask. Id--t. Very low energy audience. Lighting guy should be fired. No gel, direct spot on Betsy's leg. Or is that an open window? Whoever didn't close the window should be fired then. We have 37,000... — read more 

Company Q3 meeting at noon eastern. I've heard they will officially announce the 3-buckets and that we'll be notified of our bucket on 10/16. Any other "news" we're expecting them to announce today?

how confident are we that Explore Barcelona will take place? the event is just a week after the acquisition closes, and it seems inappropriate that any VMware executives would still be on stage- but yet no one from BC is slated to be there... — read more 

Just curious. What is the approximate percentages breakdown of in-office versus remote workers?

When I first started in I.T. at a help desk job back in 1998 (hard to believe it's been 25 years), some of my teammates and I were expressing our surprise at how much compensation levels were rising in the tech industry, particularly for people who... — read more 

Is there anybody who is 100% sure they will still have their job in a couple of months?

By now most of us know that we will fall into one of three categories that will define our fate. For those who fall into the being let go category and getting severance, in AMER specifically, does anyone know if when we receive a notice letter that... — read more 

I left 4 years ago and a recruiter just asked me about an opportunity as NSX Senior Consultant in PSO. That got to be a joke, right ? I replied asking for a contractual guarantee that the job isn't getting cancelled for four years and asked for... — read more 

Wednesday’s all-hands will roll out the plan to put all employees in 1 of 3 groups. Come October 15th, everyone will either be group 1- offer letter to join Broadcom. Group 2- offer to stay on to support the merger and receive a hefty bonus package... — read more 

Did they ever find a PE?

Managers announced layoffs coming. Some departments already notified they are being let go. So far the severance packages have been lame and not worth sticking around I got let go today and did not even get two weeks for every year I served at... — read more 

Farewell, VMware. I will always remember you as the best company you were in the days of Mendel Rosenblum and his wife the CEO Diane Greene, your legendary founders and true leaders. I will also remember the days with the brilliant and kind CEO Paul... — read more