Now, many people are concerned here as we are going to be cutting people again. I am not saying we should do it I am just saying that there is a chance we will be cutting again. The rumor I heard is June 2015, but you never know.

Guys just to confirm APJ region got a hit also and people were pushed out

Here's the problem Myopic leadership - Higher ups are absolutely clueless as to what's happening at the ground levels Push for faster releases with unnecessary product add ons makes the products released buggy, difficult to troubleshoot and... — read more 

Do you know what people are getting as severance during Jan 2015 layoffs?

Two people I personally know got the ax yesterday (January 21, 2015). One in Central Eng and one in Release Eng. Plus second-hand report of CPD.

I am perplexed that we have no posts here as there is a ton of rumors flying around and a lot of anxiety and all levels here at VMware. Things have been slowly deteriorating over here and there is a big push to come up with additional savings as... — read more 

This is the talk around the water cooler and discussions in meetings

Confirming

things are not looking good for engineering

What are your thoughts on the relo options?

we still have growth issues - I joined vmware 4 years ago and we were growing big time - now, we let 10% of workforce go last year and we'll probably cut another 5% this year, if we do not manage to return to growth patterns we will continue to... — read more 

Get ready, things are getting more interesting

VMWARE has MAJOR challenges - get out while you can, you have been warned. If you cannot see the writing on the wall, then you deserve to be downsized.

EMC subsidiary VMware announced in January it would zap some 900 jobs from its nearly 14,000-person workforce, though it is also adding about as many jobs CEO Pat Gelsinger at the time called the move a "realignment of resources" as the company... — read more 

demand for virtualization systems is still strong and will remain like that for a while - now, some folks who had performance issues were let go but other than that all is good at VMWare

It's not looking good right now - the management is desperate to meet the numbers and the sales cannot support it. the only way for them to survive the brunt of the wall street is to cut the highest expense - EMPLOYEES