See here: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-i-quit-working-twitter-elon-musk-takeover-2022-10
Cut Pivotal Peeps
I have yet to meet one normal or intelligent person who came over from pivotal.
Revenue tells the tale
Broadcom revenue is $23.9B annually. Broadcom has 15,000 employees, and the revenue per employee ratio is $1,592,533. Twitter revenue is $3.7B annually. Twitter has 3,900 employees, and the revenue per employee ratio is $762,910. VMware revenue is... — read more
Employee Lawsuits
HR is so ineffective when it comes to Mrs to stopping toxic managers. Do you think all the employee lawsuits against VMware happening right now will cause BC to shed entire organizations to rid themselves of problem managers behaving badly?
Experiencing great amount of deceit and lies
I have seen this amount of backstabbing, lies, hearsay amongst staff and managers. Manager’s one on one has become the focus of hearsay, lies, backstabbing, and toxic rumors. Staff engineers, staff, supposedly professional has been lying right and... — read more
Things to think about
I really did think I would be here forever. 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"... — read more
Trying to update your resume right after getting laid off is the worst
Since this has already happened to me, I advise everyone to always make sure that, if nothing else, at least their resume is updated and ready to go. Why stress about if there will be layoffs, when we all know that there will definitely be many... — read more
Is Green different than DEI?
It must be if you invite well known racing teams to come to special events.
This Nov
Senior from HR. Major cuts this Nov. Most probably First or second Tuesday. Over 300 engineers from Palo Alto and Seattle locations. Cut loose. No severance. Immediate termination. I fought but no use.
Emotionally attached to VMW
Reading some of these posts, I got the impression that most of them are emotionally attached to this company. Was VMWare really a place that gave a sense of belonging to so many people? For me personally that's not the case and I would definitely... — read more
Does any one else too feel that bcom culture has started taking over ?
All people working around me and with me are now working late evenings, nights. Sending emails with directors copied. I know they are nice people but when pressure to complete work comes onto them they send email to the unblock them. All this makes... — read more
Is it wise to wait for severance
or is it better to accept an average job that is offered to you now, given the risk and uncertainty of the economy's direction?
Employees are VMware's best resource
Employees are the ones who make any company great. We have so much great talent at VMware even after a lot of people decided to walk away in the last several months. Broadcom will make a huge mistake if they decide to get rid of the majority of those... — read more
The sale will wrap up before the end of the year
The SCC filing on the special meeting of stockholders that will be held on 11/4 could be an indicator that the sale will wrap up before the end of the year. I hope this turns out to be... — read more
the company doesn't want multi-year order, nice
https://www.thequota.co/articles/as-broadcom-gets-ready-to-acquire-vmware-management-is-stalling-and-vetoing-deals-making-sales-reps-and-clients-very-unhappy assuming sales sep doesn't do bad thing, they are trying to their best for best commission... — read more
Hired right before the announcement
Do you feel cheated like I do?
Those who left
I am procrastinating leaving because I really loved this job. It's hard for me to find a better offer. However, so many of my colleagues with whom I loved to work have left, so this is now a totally different workplace. For those who left, I'm... — read more
I don't care about this place anymore
Since I do not believe that I will be able to keep my job after the acquisition, I absolutely do not care about VMW anymore. I'm busy sending applications. Now that I'm here and reading all these posts about the future of the company, I get the... — read more
VMW stock
I know that this was discussed a lot of time already, but why VMW stock constantly underperform the S & P index and even Broadcom stock? I mean I guess it should be at least between 142 and Broadcom stock of 0.252 * 455 = 115 so I guess at least at... — read more
Many employees are making a mistake
So many great employees have adopted the "I'll do the bare minimum until I see what will happen" approach. I don't think that's the best way to go but to each their own. I certainly appreciate having less competition to worry about since I know... — read more
Ex-Aws Guy & Broadcom
Does anyone know what happened with this story? Did everything work out in the end? Do you think Broadcom will keep him on? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-01/vmware-goes-forward-with-hiring-of-ex-aws-manager-amid-backlash
If you have options, leave
If you have any valuable skills I would suggest you leave this dumpster fire before the acquisition is finalized and never look back. There are many, many other companies where you will be appreciated and considered an asset. No matter how good you... — read more
Raghu is an arrogant POS
While I'm sure this may offend some of you....good. But after you're finished gasping, please consider the following: Raghu's appointment to CEO only made sense in the context of VMware eventually being sold off. As much of a bumbling fool Raghu... — read more
...Broadcom vows to learn lessons from its CA, Symantec deals: This time it will be different.
I just saw this article from Jeff Vance - https://www.networkworld.com/article/3674590/broadcoms-vmware-acquisition-sparks-concern.html I think a lot of VMware employees are holding onto this type of thinking. For those incredibly naive folks, I... — read more
Broadcom’s Golden Parachute For Top 5 VMware Execs May Total $169.4M
ka-ching…. $$$ https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/broadcom-s-golden-parachute-for-top-5-vmware-execs-may-total-169-4mm
Never been less productive
I simply don't have any motivation to work here anymore because I know I will be laid off eventually. I am dedicated to looking for a new job and I only do the minimum necessary. It is interesting that even the manager has no objections. How does... — read more
Extra Amount in Sep 30 Pay-Out
I have an extra amount in my payout for September 29. Did anybody experience this? I'm wondering what this amount is for.
How long will you hold on for?
I work in EMEA PS in the field, before the BC take over announcement things were toxic and most of my team were looking outside of vmware. When the BC news broke most people stopped looking in the hope they'll get laid off by Christmas 2022 with a... — read more
The level of privilege some have!
I am fascinated by the amount of people that work at VMware and think that it sucks, it’s a bad job, leadership is terrible, and that working at VMware is somehow a struggle and saying “cant wait to gtfo”. Where did you work before and where do you... — read more
GS Union information
Anyone have the info for the union meetings? Keep hearing about them.
Question about retention bonus
Is the retention bonus designed to stop people leaving/resigning and that these folks will have a job in BC OR is it just a short term stay-on-bonus and then they will be made redundant I'm wondering the same thing.
WFH
Do you think we should keep WFH forever?
Cloudhealth
Thoughts on whether Cloudhealth will be kept or sold on?
Sales People aren't Happy
https://www.thequota.co/articles/as-broadcom-gets-ready-to-acquire-vmware-management-is-stalling-and-vetoing-deals-making-sales-reps-and-clients-very-unhappy
Is it true that WFH is ending completely within next 2-3 months ?
When Broadcom takes over most of the control. My friend working at Broadcom told me, Broadcom employees are 5 days a week IN office. As per him, we might be very very lucky if we get 2 days work from home a week. (Apple, Google etc have already... — read more
Anyone know?
Does anyone know what the Big Ragoo intends to do after the CIC amount is paid out?
Carbon Black under Broadcom
Anyone know about the fate of CB or other security products under BC?