What ID10T thought product name up? Glad I finally said it.
Are toast? 15% down. $280 Billions wiped?
I think it is just short sellers trapped the bulls who bought at $500 aftermarket. But WTH. https://cloudinfra.blog/what-broadcoms-earnings-miss-means-for-cloud-ai-infrastructure-spending/ I lost $ of upper 5 digits today. Very Bad.
6/10 15%
Bad
How is life?
Looking on LinkedIn there is loads of Broadcom / VMW jobs coming up. I left as a Senior Technical Support Engineer and I am thinking of applying to go back in. Genuine question, how's life inside now? Would it be worth going back in
I miss VMware
That's it. That's all I wanted to say.
XX/YY 100%
This is the end game
Coffee talk
We make air, openclaw to be new CEO at next coffe talk. Line of doom still dooming. Coffee badge cleared , just get your a-hole to the office. Hock has spoken, I obey and thank your sir, may I have another?
Heard today layoffs were done
Can people share what severance package they got and timelines or any other info. Thanks
What’s a poor Hock to do?
$200M comp? Can’t even buy your own private island. How can we help?
Vmware Exodus .. They said
Many article came out recently about this Vmware exodus ... 86% actively eliminating... — read more
U.S. Based Sales Support Role - Laid off today
Just got the axe today, no more resting and vesting. Didn’t expect it, was anyone else impacted today?
Process to self nominate for RIF
Looking for suggestions and ideas on ways to self nominate for RIF in the coming round.
Admit it (Part 3)
Broadcom doesn’t have much of a “company culture” but now you realize that most of the VMware culture building events were meant to soften and obfuscate the pay gap between you and the millionaire executives. Now YOU are the millionaire.
Admit it (Part 2)
VMware didn’t need all of those employees and Broadcom runs VMware with more efficiency and profitability than most of you thought was possible.
VMware Layoffs 2026
This thread is for info about potential VMware layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?
Happy Holidays
Dear Team, As we gather with our families this holiday season – or, more accurately, as those of you within 50 miles of an office get your butts back in here to maximize collaboration and real estate utilization – I want to extend my warmest wishes... — read more
January Layoff
Will there be layoff? No. But I know somebody will post this thread. Let's just talk about it.
Another laysuit vs Allstate Insurance Company
This is yet another scary action against longtime customers. https://cloudinfra.blog/broadcom-vs-allstate-how-vmware-customers-became-legal-targets-and-why-delaying-an-exit-is-risky/
December layoffs
Can't they wait for the holidays to be over
Tanzoo
Dead yet? Wondering how long the leadership can rest and vest doing nothing but errands for Uncle Hock. Lord knows nothing engineering related could have happened after I left the funhouse of mirrors that is bcom.
Admit it
The Broadcom RSU money is life changing
I’m ruined
On the sage advice of this forum I have been buying substantial numbers of put options on Broadcom stock and as of today I’m officially ruined. Wiped out to the tune of half a million dollars. How do I tell my wife? How can I look my children in the... — read more
Fidelity too
Broadcom is toast: https://cloudinfra.blog/fidelity-vs-broadcom-the-lawsuit-that-should-terrify-every-vmware-customer/
Tesco lawsuit
What is with the Tesco lawsuit? Seem Samsung as well? https://cloudinfra.blog/how-broadcoms-takeover-of-vmware-sparked-lawsuits-patch-access-fights-and-a-licensing-backlash/
vSphere is under fire with new rising displacement software
I spent over 10 years in vSphere. Now that Broadcom bundled vSphere 9.0 and you can never buy alone, many alternatives are coming up. Proxmox is outdated. These guys are out of their mind. But I am seeing a few players. Some are ex-vmware employees... — read more
How many VMWers are still alive?
39K before acquisition, how about now? How far to go to reach 7K or another number?
Shares
Anyone with old vmware / Broadcom shares what are you doing? I've over 100 from when I left and thinking of selling them but not sure when they keep going up
November 15 big one
Quarter is not looking good
Broadcom is cutting nearly 250 jobs in Palo Alto just days after revealing a high-profile partnership with OpenAI
Gotta love these headlines, can’t make this up What will he do when there is no one left to fire? Ah, silly me. That means it is acquisition time!
Broadcom ESG
What is happening with ESG? The coffee talk does not sound promising and any one know what the road map is and how much revenue its making.
Lay Off Dec
L6 L7
VCF from 10% to 90%
That surpassed even the most optimistic scenario, no thanks to super expensive public cloud hyper scalers who got greedy.
Accountability is what makes society civilized
With no accountability, it is a zoo. Velo zoo.