Dear Santa Hock, for Christmas this year I want to be fired and get that sweet 6 months salary compensation. Best regards, Your employee.

RSU, babe! Broadcom has to distribute the RSU until 15/12. So, until 15/12 Strategic people will receive the contract and RSU and for Enterprise Santa Hock will give us a temporary contract to work more 6 months in this mess.

Screw the contract! Update your profile on LinkedIn and find a new job! Do you really think that managers are waiting for the contract? No one is waiting, the ship is sinking!

Warsaw, you guys supporting Enterprise customers will receive the temporary contract until Dec 15th. No worries, no one survives, all you'll have to look for a new job. Strategic will go later, no worries. Look the bright side, maybe you'll find a... —  read more 

That's a strategy even when you have a secured job , you can have a nice job and still losing skills. To not lose skills you need to do something that you love not something you are obliged to do. Most of our IT guys working at Symantec when you... —  read more 

Have an exit strategy as your skills will atrophy quickly. If you don’t nobody will be interested in hiring you in the future... this is a squeeze and milk strategy folks...no innovation...keep the ship from sinking...take the money, bone up on your... —  read more 

Guys - it is not Accenture, it’s Pwc..

The old man Richard Hill kept Saying at the all hands ... Do unto others as you would have them do unto you ! .... henceforth never trust anyone who says this . What did we do to him to deserve this BS ! He screwed this great company earned his... —  read more 

I'm waiting endlessly!! Anyone please shed some light here!

This is NOT about cats and dogs PERIOD!! This is about corporate America’s boardroom politics and greed. This is about how one lame old goose CEO hacked his way right to the top - arm wrestling everyone only to break up a great company and bring it... —  read more 

Managers should stop trying to cheering up people. Guys, you s— doing that! Stop trying to make us motivated to keep working, you know nothing and sometimes lies don't help at all. Wait Broadcom with some management training and maybe you'll be... —  read more 

Look! Symantec was like a chonky chubby fat cat who has been lazy around the house for a very long time now.. Granny loved that cat but when she passed away, the new owners (granny's children - aka starboard) wanted to get rid of it as the fat kitty... —  read more 

That’s it.

Nonsense, there isn't paradise! But Normal companies don't do what Broadcom and Symantec did to their employees. This is terrorism and pure lack of management. They don't know what to do!

Have an exit strategy as your skills will atrophy quickly. If you don’t nobody will be interested in hiring you in the future... this is a squeeze and milk strategy folks...no innovation...keep the ship from sinking...take the money, bone up on your... —  read more 

Expect this on or around 11 Dec . The December list will be out next week. Transition folks be prepared! FYI the RIF for day 2 ..for folks at Broadcom is being finalised.

The most inept , incompetent and clumsy HR team. Whoever is left behind are so clueless about everything . Ask them anything one standard reply ! It’s becoming so horrible to just stay behind either at CBU or on transition.

All I know from this change and from my colleagues who already left us , that no matter where you go there will be a part of you not satisfied and you will say that BRCM still was a great place where i had my zone of comfort. No matter money ... —  read more 

Former CA Support, now Stay at BRDCM and dealing with Enterprise customers. It is really more or less like this. Strategic customers are given the red carpet (not too much anyway, as development and support were reduced around 20% already and... —  read more 

Nobody outside of US/India has contracts yet, chill out and let HR finish their giant spreadsheet so they can RIF all of us and get our sweet severence.

There are 2 categories of customers: Strategic and Enterprise. If you spend a sh– load of money with Symantec, you're a strategic and Broadcom will make its employees to lick your balls if it's needed to fix issues, and you have Enterprise, 80% of... —  read more 

This is the 4th week as Broadcom and no contract. No one knows the new salary, benefits and UK Payroll f—ed up and people in Warsaw haven't received the salary! WTF!?

September 2018 Starboard Value picks up 500$ million stake in the company when the share price is around 18$ to 19$ . They get a buy in right to the board and arm twist the board to seats mainly to have voting rights . Considering they are getting... —  read more 

Does Broadcom really care about owning a security business? I doubt it because if they did then why would they have sold veracode to Thoma Bravo for 950 million immediately in November 2018 after the CA deal closure . Only to acquire another security... —  read more 

How is possible? Broadcom spent US$10B buying Symantec and can't make the first salary payment happen? They pushed us to update the bloody Workday, " you have to update your bank stuff until today to have you salary!", and nothing. I was afraid to... —  read more 

I just shipped back my phone and computer. I’ve never felt so free! Send me my severance!

Welcome all Symantec employees, to what might possibly be the worst 'software' vendor in the world. When is a software company not a software company? When it's run by a company with no knowledge of how to run anything other than the sale of... —  read more 

WIN WIN WIN! The WAW office is built upon the famous "N—rian scam". Managers will delight you with a big prize if you do "the right thing" and if you "reset your expectations", as they like to say. Obviously, this never comes. Often you hear... —  read more 

Couple of takeaways- TSA accelerated ..from whatever they showed they plan to be done with this TSA business by February end. They have kept aside an extended buffer duration for 2 months but it is unlikely they will go that far. We are in the 60 day... —  read more 

I’m in sales. 98+% of my peers were told on 11/12 that they were terminated and tomorrow would be their last day.  However I was told I was on a list to transition the business until January. Yet no one knows what I am to be doing. I’ve talked with... —  read more 

This manager said months ago this is a win, win, win deal, all win, no matter what! Now we see people being pushed to work in different areas, no support, manager giving no hope. Run for your life's.

Whatever ! im personally coming to do my task and leave at the end of the day , i don't care and most important i expect a salary end of each month while planning for the Great Escape. Everyone in my team will leave soon!! Buenas noches !

We started the 3rd week as Broadcom and nothing from them. Where is the paper? Where is annual bonus? Where are those equal or even better benefits? These managers from Warsaw just lie and lie.

Do you know that a company cannot hold back their employees in TSA without signing a CONTRACT!! Stated in US labor law. In some instances, a buyer may not be in a position to have benefit plans to cover newly acquired employees at closing... —  read more 

Symantec dumbest mistakes causing misery to everyone. First foremost Symantec is purely shhhiiit! Symantec support is now terrible, they've removed their web chat and lost most of their good engineers. Their newly acquired BlueCoat product is in... —  read more 

I wanted severance and to be free of this sh$t show. No such luck. I even asked boss to give my job to someone else. They wouldn’t listen. My objective is to work as little as possible to get laid off within 12 months timeframe. It’s not who I am... —  read more 

Will TSA's get bonuses on top of their Retention Awards? The world may never know.

What does it feel like to be acquired by Broadcom? Answer - C-ap What does it feel like to be left behind at RemainCo? Answer - C-ap What does it feel like to be on TSA ? Answer- C-ap This is it folks ! Once the epitome of cyber... —  read more 

Anyone at Broadcom know the severance formula? The 8-K SEC form says Symantec is responsible for paying severance to any transfer employee terminated within 90 days post close. I'm wondering how the Broadcom severance compares after the 90 days.

Soon Broadcom won't need to fire people from the office in Warsaw. Almost everyday there's someone announcing he/she is leaving. I hope someone stay to switch off the lights.