They are going to begin eliminating HB1s to prepare for the election of Donald Trump.

To further save costs been hearing that a massive consolidation effort will soon start to move VMware data centers and labs into Dell's current spaces. Not good news for Cambridge and bay area lab staff.

Formatting / TheLayoff Markdown A 'greater than' character (>) at the beginning of a line will indent text... A word that starts AND ends with two asterisks ** will be bold. If you want it in italic, use one * at the begging and end of the word A... — read more 

Plenty of time talented folks were let go in favor of keeping brown nosers. If you're competent and do your job well, and someone else is marginal but better at buttering up middle management, guess who's getting the pink slip? I've seen this happen... — read more 

The whole MSBU in Colorado Springs has there meetings tomorrow at 9:30. About 100 people there will be gone. Nothing to do with performance, it's the whole Dev site.

Good luck, if you do get let go remember it's nothing personal. VMware is simply using your position as chattel to show wall street they are serious about cutting costs as a last ditch effort to bring up the stock price. Take pride knowing your job... — read more 

Which BUs are high risk right now? I have heard it's really bad news for MSBU and SABU? If it's 900 people cut for entire company how much would approx be cut from engineering?

In the past we've had some great hires from new grads who did not have the chance to go through their first review cycle. We also got some excellent people who were one way or another demotivated by the environment and we made them motivated again.

If you are confident of your performance and value to the team, you shouldn't worry about the layoff of 5%. This is still the case at VMware. The ones who are most worried about layoffs are the first ones to be laid off. So if you genuinely believe... — read more 

A friend who runs training for Dell has been told ramp up his VMware trainings to all their reps.

Any word on what the severance package may look like? I know some companies like Cisco used to give 6 months plus benefits and others that give you a couple weeks.

its the law of the jungle I'm afraid. If you have been mediocre and keep getting a 3 in your perf review you may be at risk. If your a 2 your out IMO. The management teams will stack rank their employees. The directors will stack rank the managers... — read more 

#PatGelsinger

I see a lot of managers and director staying in late and talking behind closed doors. Does that mean these managers have a list of people from their teams that will be impacted? Does anyone know which teams / BUs are at high risk?

There seems to be a lot of talk about layoffs coming out next week. Does anyone know any details? Anyone have any contacts? Some folks on here suggested that the Burlington Office may close. Does anyone have any data to back that up?

Who is deciding who is getting laid off and how? What are they basing their decisions on? Does HR have 100% control over this or are they considering input from managers and or senior folks?

If you have notice we have layoffs every year since Pat took over. Every town hall the emphasis is on clear communication blah blah .. and we come to know this in press. Good job guys (management).I think we are directionless nobody knows whats... — read more 

We have much more important things to do - do not waste time here on unfounded rumors

Do you know if they will be changing severance payment rules for the upcoming job cuts? Serious responses please.

The day before you get the ax from VMware you'll get an email at 4pm setting up an unexpected meeting the next morning with your director. Don't panic, there's nothing you can do to avoid it. Stay late and clean out your files and tidy your computer... — read more 

We simply have no clear and concise message to teams about actual business goals and priorities. How can we expect them to deliver a layoff communication if they are unable to cover the basics like business strategy, goals, tactics, prioritization... — read more 

I posted a few days ago - we got an email asking all of our support engineers to be able to extend shifts. You know what this mean right? I am new to VMware but my previous employer did the same thing - they extended shifts, and cut people. So the... — read more 

This is just in case you are not already fed up with vmware and want to move on - A good buddy of mine was laid off back in November 2015, so not that long time ago - he was told that they were fine with him applying for a different position, but... — read more 

I am sure 99% of you here would agree with me on this one - we do not have enough people to do actual work! There is a ton of managers floating around pushing papers, approving, reviewing, doing nothing - but the folks who are doing real work are... — read more 

VMware grew so big so fast - the whole back office is immature to the extent that it stifles any growth - DELL is not stupid - Our management is utterly slow to make any decisions - strategy changes, tactic change, but nothing sticks - a ton of back... — read more 

Our debilitating passive aggressive corporate culture cannot continue to exist any longer, especially once Dell starts to control all things around here... We agree to do certain things in meetings, but people never execute accordingly. SUPER WEAK... — read more 

Pivotal will be hit the most (percentage wise)

We knew it for a while, but It's all over news now... While big boys are trying to stitch EMC, VMware, and Dell it seems that we will be paying the highest price here with 900 folks to be cut. 900 people, or about 5% our global workforce will be... — read more 

I was let go in 2015

#fail - check it out: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/shinal/2016/01/20/emc-stock-suggests-vmware-tracking-stock-worthless/79059784/

Word on the street is that they might shut down the Burlington Canada center. Broomfield, CO engineers (the USA call center) have been asked to work extra hours for the next few weeks and mgmt has announced that engineers from other groups will be... — read more