I know it took me long enough, but I wanted to make sure I considered all the possibilities. In the end, I realized that with Broadcom in charge, this will be a completely different company than the one I joined, and that was the deciding factor in my decision-making. Good luck to those of you who have decided to stay, but I realized this is no longer a workplace for me.
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It seems there's two main types of employees. Those groveling at the feet of leadership, and those who laugh behind the backs of anyone who is deeply concerned about layoffs. Why are we laughing at people that loved their career at VMware and would be disappointed at losing their job? I'm obviously in the middleground, I'd love to stay at there longer as I don't want all the amazing work me and my teams have done to just be deleted with a big red button when Broadcom steps in. At the same time, I'm 100% mentally prepared for the layoffs, but I'm not laughing at anyone for caring, that's just strange.
There is a doc on source. Pretty much tell your manager sign your non solicit and promise to return your laptop. They send you a box and stuff. Super easy.
I just went through it a few months ago. Much of the same reasons for me. This place was different and I didn't love it anymore after 7 years. I had held a variety of roles within VMW but my last one in CS in which I was moved around and then given responsibilities that looked nothing like the role I was hired for.
I was then micro managed and given little direction after we hired an ex splunk vp who knew nothing of what VMW did. Decisions were made after my teams input, often doing the exact opposite of what we said they should do and the results spoke for themselves, it didn't work. I spent more hours on meetings then actually being productive and nobody wanted to make decisions anymore.
In other words if you don't like it anymore don't stay. I could have gotten severance and a nice bonus for sticking around but didn't want to be fighting for jobs out there when the cuts did happen.
What is the process for quitting, besides telling your manager? I'm planning to do the same in 6 months, unless I can get the severance beforehand!
Who cares what you decided? Grow up
"This is one of the reasons VMware is so broken. It started hiring rag tag mercenaries instead of good soldiers who care."
The outside perception is that legacy VMW leadership always encouraged this mercenary culture. Therefore, it's somewhat ironic that it's no being described as a new phenomena.
instead of good soldiers who care.
I will gladly be a soldier in defense of myself, my family, even my country. For some corporation? No way.
You're nothing more than a lease on a copy machine to them. To be kept as long as useful and discarded the moment you aren't. Why should I owe them more loyalty than they give me? Again, for some corporation? No way.
The mercenaries downvoting the truth does make the situation any different. In 60 days VMware is going to be a war zone with refugees fleeing every which way.
"I don't care if it gets better. I'll work here and get paid, then if I don't like it, I'll go somewhere else and get paid by them." -- This is one of the reasons VMware is so broken. It started hiring rag tag mercenaries instead of good soldiers who care.
I don't care if it gets better. I'll work here and get paid, then if I don't like it, I'll go somewhere else and get paid by them.
They can fire me at any time, I can quit at any time. We get along fine.
VMware has become a toxic nightmare place and Broadcom is coming in to completely clean house. Imagine a complete house remodel that gets rid of half of the broken down house, downsizing into something manageable. That is what is coming. It is not going to get better.