I have been reading many of the comments here about those that are VP or higher getting 1 year salary and all of their RSUs vested. I wonder how this is affecting performance, morale, management approach.
My manager who is a VP convinced me to join VMware prior to the announcement of the acquisition, otherwise I would never have taken it. In these two years, it has changed from bi-weekly one to ones, and her singing my praises, to her talking to me once every 2-3 months at best. Suddenly in the past 6 months she became very critical of me, and her tone has become very toxic. She ignores my emails and Teams messages, and actually seems to have no time for me at all.
Joining VMware was the biggest mistake I've made. It is my third employer and I really thought I was going places. I was with my previous employer for 6 years. My customers are telling me they don't want this Broadcom acquisition, and they are moving away from VMware entirely. I don't blame them at all. If I were them I'd be moving to Red Hat, AWS, and Microsoft too.
The thing that really bothers me is how fake all these so called executives are. She still posts on social media all the time about how awesome her team is and she hits like on every single one of Broadcom's posts. What is now very transparent is she only praises and posts about those above her. It makes me sick.