Layoffs at Palo Alto has begun. Management here sucks...

The blood has begun here in Bangalore and Pune. 20 colleagues let go, including me. :/ Any other geos affected??

With MSBU and ISBU top and middle management shaken already. Exits are likely to happen in these BUs sooner than later. Resulting the layoffs to happen next month. Hold on to your seats guys.

Heard from multiple sources...

So I got laid off from a US location. Later got to know that the VP only asked to lay off 2 people but our director seized the opportunity and laid off 6 people to suit his and his disciples needs who are trying to a coup for higher positions. The... — read more 

Not sure if I should accept it... Pay is good, people are friendly but I'd worry about upcoming layoffs, if any. Any comments/recommendations?

Approx 200 got impacted last Weds.

VMware HAS THE WORST MIDDLE MANAGEMENT EVER. no one is ever promoted for achievements rather if your their long enough you will get promoted. To many managers not enough employees so work falls behind and Revenue drops. The licensing revenue will not... — read more 

vRealize and NSX are cutting down on resources. with no bookings for nsx and vrealize, stock took a beating and will be further down after q1. emc is trying to liquidate its stock before it becomes penny.

when the innovation is done through accounting practices and offshoring, the bright minds will find better places. the drain has been happening for a while, out with the high salaries/tenure and with the the #H1B and college grads. many reasons... — read more 

I did forgot to mention this. Before the announcement of the layoffs, the execs from ISBU - Manager and above did go for a VMware party booked at the Exec Suite at the Oracle Arena to see the Warriors play Houston rockets on the 18th of Jan. The... — read more 

I did forgot to mention this. Before the announcement of the layoffs, the execs from ISBU - Manager and above did go for a VMware party booked at the Exec Suite at the Oracle Arena to see the Warriors play Houston rockets on the 18th of Jan. The... — read more 

I can see it is a growing revenue stream, but this is ominous: VMware putting all their might on a product that is sold to a very small high end segment of the market. I thought the whole appeal of VMware was that it's technology was applicable from... — read more 

I've been a VMware user, admin and architect since 2006. I have never worked for VMware, though I have interviewed with their PS division and turned down a job offer from them. I can also tell you that EMC and their 'big iron' and 'sales first'... — read more 

Only tamilians and mallus have a fair shot here in Bangalore - everyone else is more or less put in place

What do you guys plan to do with Fusion? Is development going to continue?

is no matter how plainly obvious it is to the market, they continue to stick to their original product line, unwilling and unable to actually throw their lot with new vision, new idea, new people and new leadership all paradigm changes herald... — read more 

Does outsourcing really save money when so many of these low quality workers eventually end up transferring to headquarters to get paid at US pay grade? Most of these guys can't code if their lives depended on it.

Sad what is happening at VMware... looks like Hosted UI products are moving to maintenance mode based out of India and China. If you haven't already, its time to seriously look at Virtualbox as a replacement.

Time to buy

The business side of VMware sucks, I agree, they are making bad decisions left and right, but you have to understand that the business side and the technology side are NOT the same. VMware has a HUGE number of exceptionally talented engineers, who... — read more 

Apart from HyperV and KVM, are anyone looking at any other Hypervisor Technologies and stacks as a replacement to the bloated, buggy and soon to be probably worst supported ESXi and vSphere? How easy is it to migrate VM's and the entire environment... — read more 

Anyone affected by the layoffs, check out Ultimate Software! #1 best place to work in Technology rated by Fortune. We are hiring for all position, especially in our Product Development team. Offices in south Florida, Atlanta, Toronto, Santa Ana, and... — read more 

anyone see all of the twitter posts from our delusional euc lead? first, he posts how great vmware and euc are right after layoffs. he got roasted by those of us impacted. then he nags citrix after their earnings. childish. maybe he should look at us... — read more 

Years ago after being RIF'ed in 2008 (who wasn't) I started looking for ways to cover costs if I was RIF'ed again. There were two things I found, one IncomeAssure won't cover you unless you have held your job for 24 months and and have purchased the... — read more 

Why don't you quit vmware and give up your spot for someone who actually wants it. Layoffs are hard both for the ones let go as well as their management.

Only conclusion is the entire upper management team needs to go.

After 7 years here, the events that transpired this week made me reconsider my position to build a long career with VMware. How many of you visiting this site think that you should move on. Share your thoughts...

Too much of bad-mouthing AWS and public clouds when Hypervisor was king in datacenters, so full of themselves that they refused to address the threat. Too little too late. It is not just the top CxO's fault, it was product managers too. They too... — read more 

US Federal WARN laws require companies file notices before significant layoffs. VMware posted two updates on 2016-01-26 for 38 Broomfield and 48 Colorado Springs positions. Per a conversation with BizWest and an unnamed VMware spokesperson, the... — read more 

Say hi to the executives. Do I need to start looking into options, I am spending a dizzying amount of money with you guys and they are cutting resources. We ditched Dell years ago, now they are pulling the same shit on us through VMware... OK, it... — read more 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0W1v0kOELA "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." Semisonic - -Broomfield

As a longtime client, it's with supreme sadness I've read post of their acquisitions. Why? Because of so many other products and services that Dell has purchased over the years, then turning them into shit in less than two years. Postini Equallogic... — read more 

move on with your lives and start looking for more work. bitching and moaning is not going to get you anywhere. life happens, it sucks, but pick yourselves up and move forward.