As a Chinese development team member, I am sorry to hear the lay offs too. We are in the same IT buniness.
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@hea nails it
Some of the people laid off from WS/Fusion were phenomenal engineers, who could have gone anywhere, but chose to be at VMware. Laying them off is a disgrace for the company and a slap in the face of engineering.
what about the development engineers/performance engineering ?
Stellar indeed
OK, that's going to be stellar - we had many folks who got laid off today who spent 10+ years on the product, know things inside out... Great engineers, understanding of business, etc...
Kudos @FDkTtLG-rfp
As one of the engineering persons who got laid off from VMware, for me, I have moved on already. It is no longer my business...
It should not be a surprise. Since all the QA of workstation and fusion were outsourced to china, exactly two years ago.
OK, that's going to be stellar - we had many folks who got laid off today who spent 10+ years on the product, know things inside out... Great engineers, understanding of business, etc...
How is this going to be covered in China by folks who spent most of their careers on the fringes or doing #outsourcing - that's beyond me - many have tried and #VMware is not the first company to try this, however I am am yet to hear about one example where this thing worked out well.
In the short term, money will be saved but this is rather suicidal from a long term perspective