Thread regarding VMware layoffs

Can you please tell us where you moved onto? I don't want to work for a company that would be willing to hire a ja----s like you

This post has already been downvoted more, than other posts where people have praised Betsy and all her DEI efforts.

OP sounded bitter. Situation is not ideal with VMW right now. But experience with VMW is no regret. Decent pay, good benefits and generous days off. Having to go to new company, you win some and loss some. Your stress goes up, vacation start from the baseline, insurance likely not as great, job security wouldn’t be any better or worse but for sure you don’t have the same severance packages. Big corporations going through huge layoffs so do small companies. CEOs decision becoming more unpredictable and erratic. The time you see them talking on the news, the axe will come to your neck matter of weeks. With start ups, situation can be worse as when the owners not seeing funding coming, layoffs will be immediate. No matter how you flip the coin and where you go, we are all in the same company call, Global Economy Incorporate. Don’t need to be hateful, it makes you looks stupid. The type of attitude you have, you will be a loser no matter where you go.

I also left VMware but I don't have the attitude the OP does. Everyone has to make their own decisions. I left a lot of really close friends at VMW. It was the best company I ever worked for. And it was the most difficult professional decision I ever had to make. Calling others "Cowards" is ridiculous.

Thanks for the update on your new job. Literally no one on here care. You could've just celebrated with those that care about you instead of taking the time to try to make everyone on here feel bad...? Why? Does it make you feel good? Lol We don't want that negative energy up in here!!!

You’ve ‘moved on’ so much that after you’ve left you feel the need to come to the VMW lay-off board and exhort people to do the same? Doesn’t sound like moving on to me, perhaps it’s you that needs to let go. ‘Leavers remorse’ perhaps?

A different view is that it’s the cowardly move to jump ship the second you encounter choppy waters………

Everyone needs to do what’s right for them in this situation, there is no right or wrong or ‘cowardly’ move as your employment is so personal to you. I’m sure you had your reasons for your decision and wish you the very best in your new role.

I wonder if all these messages about, "you need to quit," are being written by head hunters who are trying to recruit VMware engineers. I just don't see why an individual who quit really would care whether other people also quit.

Hey cowards like me need to pay the bills too. Good luck with your new role but no name calling and hate please.

OP is right if you can move onto something else take it and run... others that cant good luck and best to you hopefully it works out for you

Your logic assumes that people are staying only for the severance.

You have not accounted for all options of why someone might stay at a company. The person you’re speaking to:

• May want to work for Broadcom, particularly if they think attrition may allow them growth
• Alternatively if Broadcom sells their BU, may want to work for whatever company acquires
• May have life circumstances that make a move poorly timed right now (buying a house, stressful situation like a divorce they don’t want to compound by adding also starting a new job, visa issues)
• May have life circumstances such as top end of their pay range and not in a geography or role where there are comparably paid jobs
• May prefer waiting to have better information in which to decide
• May be in a role that is harder to find a job in and maybe they are already looking

I don’t think you have enough information to judge what is best for someone else.

Hope your role get rescinded the first day or layoff the during orientation.