And it has only gotten worse since the acquisition was announced. Are there really people who still like it here and plan to stay even when Broadcom takes over? I can understand staying because you don't want to risk changing jobs in this economy, but I'm asking about people who enjoy their jobs and genuinely want to stay here.
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When Broadcom bought Symantec, they fired all supporting functions like Marketing, Payroll, HR, internal IT, internal Support etc and brought everyone into the fold. If there's already a Broadcom Sales Rep on your accounts, good luck, you're most likely gone. If your technical sales, they might let you stay unless a small number of specialised techs can cover the region. If it's the latter, you may have a future at AVGO, if it's the former, you will be gone within a year until they worked out the latter. If you're an SDE on a product in development, bye. If your product not performing well? Bye. Are you a product manager? Your skills might be reusable on another product if yours doesn't make it. If you're in customer support, you will stay for now but if you're in partner management or any related partner roles, say your goodbyes. Does your cou try have a works council? Broadcom doesn't like them and even fully closed down the German division of Symantec because of it.
The usual strategies apply - are you with them for a long while? Wait for redundancy. Did you start with them in the last three years? GTFO.
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Your life must be very boring to need popcorn moments in a company you no longer work for. I agreed you made the right decision though. VMware is much better without you.
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What worries me more than layoffs, especially if the process takes ages, is people asking the same damn questions day in and day out. Some people just are too thick to understand that no one knows until everyone knows.
If I could I would just sign out of Slack until the thing is over.
Broadcom guy here....it's really simple. Hock is a simple man. Ignore the PR stunt blog posts, all the paid shills writing how it's positive, etc. He will take that which is sticky and profitable ALREADY and invest. He's already demonstrated that in the past. Anything else goes out the door unless it can be HEAVILY, HEAVILY milked. Let your current BU situation dictate future.
Will he vary from his playbook? Doubtful. The integration timeframe might be longer than you think as it's probably harder to peddle IP in this environment.
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Who says I care. I just love Popcorn moments sometimes and love to shake my head about people moaning and not doing anything about it. :-)
Not that I need the confirmation but ‘your’ posts here give me the confirmation that I made the right decision. Must be fun to work amongst depressed people that can only moan rather than either get on with their job or leave.
You left. Why you care?
I don't understand it at all - which is why I left. The problem is, there is no guarantee that you are save no matter what your BU or team brings in revenue wise. Layoffs really make sense in a way - I mean I worked with marketing departments that had a dozen people, several VPs and all they've done / do / did is working on internal material. I could come up with plenty of dead meat that needs cutting, but the point here is - no one is safe as no one knows how decisions will be made who goes ... (i.e. is IT going because it can be outsourced ? Is HR / Accounts going because of the same and so on).
So to your point that you understand it because of the current climate. Here is the thing. If you go now you got limited competition.
If you wait because you want to get the severance then good luck. The numbers are big / will be big .. whether it is 20% or 50% ..... heck even at 10% you are looking at 3k+ that are looking for a new job compared to 10s or 100s right now (no clue what the attrition is right now).
Also bear in mind, Hock clearly said he wants to be fair. What that means - and I have been through several acquisitions in my 30 years of working in the industry - is that if you are kept around, you likely have to apply for your new job inside Broadware and he said he wants to give everyone the same chance so you wouldn't just compete with vmware guys, but with bcom guys too.
So - do I understand that people stay ? Absolutely not.
In fact, I still talk to guys that stick around and they don't even learn new techs so whoever thinks that in 2023 VMware Tech will get them the same benefits in the market and they get away going out installing vRA or VCF - good luck to them. Good luck to all of you (and yes, totally expect my post to be downvoted, the truth hurts).