misogynistic managers at vmware Misogyny is a disease. It is pathetic to have men look down to women. It is inhuman and should be classified as mental illness. I have been at vmware for several years. I have suffered from male dominance. My male... — read more 

“ The executive also acknowledged that there was initial employee concerns over the deal, but that has lessened as its workforce have been shown the... — read more 

Things have changed drastically for me in the past few months. We have people leaving, getting laid off, getting fired, and to top it all, one of the few guys who're still on my team is getting a divorce and is now doing more harm than good because... — read more 

... nothing ... literally nothing. There are tons of threads daily asking about severance, BUs, benefits etc. Right now - all we know is in Source. Anything else - NO ON knows - no matter how often you ask on this board. This is an anonymous... — read more 

Does anyone know what the APAC/APJ severance looks like? There was a previous post on AMER severance stating it was two (2) months of base salary plus 1 week per full year of service. Curious to know what the severance looks like in other regions.

I thought this is only at SASI BU. But clearly from what I see, it is toxic all over. Managers are working to push ICs out so that they may survive.

Wait till you see the Zane and Betsy email... Hilarious they are pi-ping an accelerated vesting schedule due to our fiscal results! Congratulations! Get exited.... Then read it. Really we just moved forward the 2025 and 2026 vesting into March of... — read more 

I'm still unsure if it was a good decision, but I preferred to accept the offer with a lower pay, than to stay here in an increasingly toxic atmosphere. Considering these uncertain times, I guess it is!? Several of my colleagues also left this... — read more 

I see so many of you are waiting for severance. That's a shame. Only cowards wait for severance. Take your destiny into your own hands and go out and find a new job right now. If you've been at VMware for longer than a few years, you should have more... — read more 

see Octane's latest blog today re Broadcom and VMW... of course we don't know what life it might be...

https://www.broadcom.com/blog/what-a-combined-broadcom-and-vmware-can-deliver Mentions Multi Cloud and actually mentions Tanzu which most thought would be sold off. Could we be wrong this whole time he will keep core, Tanzu and sell off EUC, Carbon... — read more 

Will be announced in January

US Federal Business -- Any information about sales, professional services, customer success?

I recently accepted an offer to join EDA. However now I am wondering if this is a big mistake? I have heard from friends that work in the company already that EDA may be completely axed except a really small % of people that work on some key... — read more 

How is everybody feeling about this? Are you prepared for it?

I sent countless resumes and now I'm getting a little worried because several months have passed and I still haven't managed to find a new job. I'm slowly becoming depressed. Competition on the job market is huge. It is very likely that I will have... — read more 

Today at the PCS All Hands after Ragu went on about how great stuff is, Kit Colbert, the CTO comes on and I'm thinking okay we are going to hear about some new cool tech. But no, he starts virtual signaling about DEI. Then he introduces an engineer... — read more 

Wow, somehow I had missed this, Karen Egan decided to join Sanjay at Cohesity! https://www.cohesity.com/press/cohesity-appoints-karen-egan-chief-customer-experience-officer/

Could anyone read between lines on what he said at 1st one? I felt kind of indication of more job loss coming and be prepared. Surprisingly in 2nd at pacific time he didn’t say much.

we have all heard the chatter about severance possibilities. 2 months+, 2 weeks per year, etc, etc Well if you jump on Source and look for "severance" by itself (not severance policy, just the word severance) one of the links returned is the ERISA... — read more 

I have an interview for the PS team in the UK. I am worried about what will happen after the takeover. Does anyone know how the PS business is working out for VMWare and whether the long term prospects are good?

“They were very, very mature companies with little prospect of growth in the categories they were in, and the revenue was mostly focused on 400 or so customers,” he said at the time.

You have probably seen the push for woke talk at VMware. The other day at the start of the marketing summit a woman comes on and starts lecturing about using "inclusive language". If you go on the internal websites you will seen an announcement about... — read more 

I think we're now seeing the composition of employees who will stay until the acquisition. Those who wanted to leave have done that already, barring a few who are still struggling to find a new position. Outside of layoffs, I don't think we'll be... — read more 

With all the talk about RSU awards and RSU vesting, are vmware giving them away like the packs of M&S's in the break room? I ask because I never received any when I started vmware and have never been given any ongoing, other than the 21 or so that... — read more 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/broadcom-banking-early-eu-approval-220100913.html

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Unless you have a time-trusted crystal ball, mind meld / telepathy with Hawk Tan, hang on the coattails of Mike Hayes, Zane Roe, Kit, Mark or are close to the BC acquisition team, PREPARE yourself for being JETTISONED after the deal closes. Economy... — read more 

What does everyone think this means for the acquisition and its timing? Does this mean the chances are greater the deal will fall through? Could it at least slow down the deal?

SEBU engineer here - wondering what will happen to my BU post-Hockcom acquisition? Lots seem to think our SD-WAN is the perfect complement to Symantec, but the news about HCL partnering with VMware for RAN, WAN, etc, makes us scared that Hock will... — read more 

Night and day.... Raghu should get some training from Satya.

But now that I won't be, I can see it is a blessing in disguise. This was a great run, but being in love with a company is a mistake. I see now just how much more I did because I thought of it as "my" company. I see now how management used that... — read more 

Interesting, I feel that officers should be held accountable for breaching their fiduciary duties. They get the big bonuses for reaching targets and should be personally liable if they cooked the books.

Nothing. The last 10 years was a self congratulatory celebration of how great our R&D is. OCTO is another dead wood team. Great at marketing talk.

Just passed interview for Staff engineer, got verbal offer and bruh, it is FAT. Palo Alto location. Very tempting offer. What should I do?

As in using some type of productivity monitoring software? Tracking the websites we visit, apps we are using, etc?

Was talking to a couple of buddies at Citrix/Tibco yesterday, over MNF. Seems that Tom K has put the hammer the down on all remote work. Basically: If you want to advance, better be in the office. If you went remote during covid better come back in... — read more 

Considering that employees are still leaving in great numbers it is hard for me to believe the rumors that there could be some significant cuts at the beginning of next month. Any thoughts?

As a part of their ZTNA inititive VMware IT ran a compliance check on employee laptops and phones which resulted in the devices of over 7000 employees being locked out of resources such as email and internal websites. Some employees were totally... — read more