There were recent layoffs at VMware. Are you hiring? leave job postings here

An opportunity for all the racist directors, VPs, and the little first line managers is coming. Many already realigned the teams in preparation for layoffs. They are waiting for the right opportunity which seems to be coming soon. Today’s quarter... —  read more 

Has anyone heard about this?

https://www.crn.com/news/virtualization/vmware-confirms-employee-salary-freeze-ceo-pay-cut

Obvious astroturfing here

Woah ... just in California https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/nutanix-confirms-furloughs-of-nearly-1-500-employees

Enterprise sales, money is ok but goals are ridiculous and when you hit them it’s never enough for some directors who are absolute abusive alcoholics. They know who they are.

Getting a serious offer / interview from Google- many other very astute coworkers have already accepted- lots of brain drain will go there. Dell has has infiltrated Vmware management and it appears they will milk the long standing reputation of... —  read more 

Is vmare tanzu pre sales really hiring?? I have got an interview with them but wondering in this economic condition what is the reason behind hiring in pre sales org.

What means when company has central tools team, and central team say developer tools need managed by team using tool? Does central team have value? Close central team not hurt bottom line?

App Modernization is extremely tone deaf and rude for anyone who did not come from the new acquisitions and end up in the new BU. Do you think that the people who built the revenue streams are happy with the implication that their software is... —  read more 

Anyone been through retaliatory firing? I've been at vmware for 5 years. My manager (who I had for about 6 month) threatened to fire me. I know the reason. It is pure retaliation. What advice is out there? NSBU Palo Alto

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A probe into vmware security fraud started yesterday by the ex California attorney general. Glad to see this fraudulent, racist company under some investigation. Hopefully, investigation for The failing startup acquisitions that end up in the... —  read more 

No sure what is the reason... covid-19?

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/02/14/vmware-plans-to-cut-over-200-jobs-in-palo-alto

EUC- workspace one managers is full of bloody boot lickers... Favourism and Promoting friends and drinking buddies just to be safe...

I noticed a trend, and wanted to see any data we can get around it in the USA. If you are on an H1b and were part of lay off comment with a 0, if you are a legal resident, citizen etc. put +1 . Its anonymous so don't fret.

I'm kind of lost with all the vague info floating around...

Do you think VMware is better off with or without the outgoing top folks?

https://www.crn.com/news/virtualization/vmware-layoffs-4-top-execs-are-leaving-including-vp-of-operations

https://www.crn.com/news/virtualization/vmware-layoffs-confirmed-as-part-of-workforce-rebalancing-

Apparently VMWare sub, Pivotal, doesn’t get it but at least the news gets out of VMWare horrible yearly layoffs: https://www.crn.com/news/data-center/pivotal-employees-to-vmware-do-not-betray-our-trust-with-layoffs

Take a stab.

Let's use this thread to post any jobs that may be helpful for the folks that were RIF-ed today

Amazing...

twitter.com/TheLayoff/status/1222217471580672000

Not a good day.

Boss called this morning. I don't envy his position. Got sacked after 6 years with the company and nothing, but positive reviews year after year. Nice severance package and an opportunity to find another job within the company. This is just how it... —  read more 

Meetings have been booked and internals have been laid off.

That is what a manger told me. Best wishes.

A lot of people got 1:1's set up yesterday(5 in the HCS platform engg team, 2 in SRE are the ones I know) at EUC Bangalore. It was always clear this dev owns quality b—s— was a way to move the QAs into dev teams and fire them stating "business... —  read more 

I got the invite today. The 1x1 meeting will be with a SVP, I am in EU GSS... Why SVP? I am not a manager...

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Never have these meetings scheduled in the past and only scheduled for 30 minutes.

I have an unexpected 1:1 meeting scheduled with my manager tomorrow. She typically do not do things like this, so I am pretty certain I'll get the axe. I am in Burlington, Ontario, Canada...

Yearly layoffs happening today. It started in Europe, let’s see how it goes in the US. Not-so-competent management letting go of people they don’t like to hide their own incompetence. If you get an invite for a 1-2-1 with your manager, you... —  read more 

Do you know what are top three locations in terms of employee count? Also, how many work at Palo Alto?