What's Octane up to? Any layoffs planned for 2019?

Does anyone know what groups or functions have been impacted by the latest round of layoffs that will officially happen in January?

More employees got warns for Jan exit Found this in an older thread, I was wondering if anybody knows what this is referring to? I haven't heard that anybody got a notification of being let go in the last few weeks from Brocade, and especially not in... — read more 

Mergers are never good news for regular employees, but this takes the cake. Brocade just announced mass layoffs, and the reason? Broadcom merger complications. Still not sure how many or from where, if anybody has some inside info, it'd be great if... — read more 

Just happened

Does anyone have insight on the number of employees will be laid off after the Broadcom deal closes?

Rumors are flying left and right about Brocade Acquisition in 2016, probably Q2 or Q3. Would anyone care to chime in. I am looking at this from layoffs perspective and could care less about the direction of BRCD's stock price - please do not... — read more 

Is there a good discussion board on BRCD? I am not with the company and I have no info on layoffs. I invest in your company and would like to share info with Share Holders.

Did you hear something about this? Just heard rumors, with Brocade you never know, always on my toes...

If you did not know, we are in the process of letting 7% of our peeps go - SEVEN!!! It's a major chunk of the workforce and you can expect the numbers to go up. I'd say that 2014 will bring even more layoffs, so you might want to start preparing your... — read more 

Brocade Communications wants people to know a few things: Brocade is definitely not for sale. Brocade is still the leader in the (shrinking) Fibre Channel storage market. Brocade beat analysts’ expectations in its latest quarterly financial... — read more 

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. is reportedly pursuing a potential sale that could mean big changes for San Jose’s fourth biggest tech employer. The company has looked for buyout opportunities before, including in 2009 when it held talks with... — read more 

Execs bragged about cost cutting measures in the most recent cc, with more coming in future. I would not be surprised to see massive layoffs, similar to what happened at Cisco back in June (I think they cut 4,000 folks). The industry is in a general... — read more 

More than 300 people got let go today. This affected all levels and there is a general consensus that more is to come...

Brocade used to be a great company to work for, now the only purpose is to fill pockets of senior execs - nobody cares about workers any more, it's a huge robbery...