Vmware is now a lean, mean, fighting machine: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/12/13/broadcom_q4_fy_2024_vmware/

What do you think?

Despite all the negativity, the naysayers, and countless prediction of VMware's and Broadcom's downfall, Broadcom seems to be doing quite well. Cut VMware expenses from ~$2.4B per quarter to ~$1.3B and increased operating margin from 30% to 70%... — read more 

Does anyone have information on when the bonuses will be paid this month? I would appreciate any updates. Please keep the conversation positive and kind, as I'm feeling quite stressed already. Thank you for your understanding!

Inspired by the other hilarious post, here are some potential titles for our former HR leaders upcoming memoir: “Peace, Love, and Policy: How I Brought Flower Power to HR” “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You: The HR Playbook for Excluding the... — read more 

Here are the current issues in Omnissa as far as I can see. Documentation is being pulled from public view at present and not being replaced, soon there will be only a fraction and it will be useless for the most part with no reference to... — read more 

Some potential titles that are being floated around for Hock's upcoming memoir “Crushing It: And By ‘It,’ I Mean Your Hopes and Dreams” “The Art of Not Giving a Customer” “Profit Over People: A Sociopath’s Guide to Success” “How to... — read more 

We seem to have reached a breaking point. Our team meeting discussions demonstrate that we reject executive lies about the financial state of our business. Most employees I know have started to acknowledge that we desperately need new leadership at... — read more 

$69 billion is a ton for VMware, someone help educate me....how will he get his money back with so many customers migrating off. Even if he can get the top 500 to 1000 to keep paying for a few more years, is that enough to cover the cost of the... — read more 

Heard a news today BC is planning to rent WeWork offices to bring people back in office. Not sure about locations though.Any information on this please

Octane is still keeping ESG (Symantec division) even though we are doing pathetically bad. From 1000+ A-list customers down to 40+. Now we are scrambling for mid-sized and small businesses. Don’t believe me? Go and check Intello. If you compare with... — read more 

Nobody gives a sh-t about Omnissa. The product will be gone in 3 years once all the customers leave. It will never recover, never go public, and always be a piece of cr-p.

I laugh at some of the "Independent studies" that vendors release, for example the blog posted on the Broadcom site about comparison over... — read more 

https://www.techradar.com/pro/broadcom-is-making-some-major-changes-to-stop-vmware-exodus

Omnissa is now going to copy bc and farm all it low spending clusters off to anunta which is a street sh----r organisation with the lack of brains to match. Those that do stick with omnissa will be required to pay extra for native English speakers... — read more 

If you just so happen to be one of those people who have a thing called a soul working in omnissa and actually tell the truth as is commonly the case, you can expect the managers to deny you any promotion or pay rises. If you are vocal and push the... — read more 

As the company flows surely and steadily down the toilet, the Shankar decided it was a wonderful idea to send an email containing a large list of promotions he dished out after he canned a load of the slaves, gave them pay cuts and sent their roles... — read more 

cut L2, L3, L4: not needed any more cut L6, L7: save cost cut managers: no one to manage L5 survive most as cheap labor

It’s baffling how top employees are constantly burdened with extra tasks, as if doing great work means they can handle much more. Meanwhile, those who constantly underperform always get a free pass. It’s risky and unsustainable. Is this really the... — read more 

Yet not enough doers at the bottom of the food chain. Can easily chop 2 layers. It will remove the politics among the Indian chief too. Make some of these people as IC, if they were IC just a few years ago.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/new-broadcom-sales-plan-may-be-insignificant-in-deterring-vmware-migrations/ ..... Broadcom will no longer take VMware's biggest 2,000 customers directly. Instead, it will work with VMware's... — read more 

Total compensation is double what is was at VMware when you include RSUs. This is the life. Another 400 shares in 2 weeks. :)

It appears the corporate clowns or an agent of theirs shows up every couple of days on the layoff.com and zeros out every upvoted negative post against Broadcom. It also appears they counter post and post id--t nonsensical posts to bury other posts... — read more 

The cracks are starting to appear in the software big time now. Broadcom took all the good developers and left the rubbish behind. In the products right now, bugs have started to appear that are bringing whole production environments down and... — read more 

Omnissa reneged on the quarterly bonus owed to the staff in Costa Rica and are making them sign day1 contracts. Omnissa have lost up to half their customer base already. They are deploying full racist equity in the company, finding ways to cut... — read more 

Firing our SVP and VP sales leaders hasn't stopped the decline. Nothing changed. We still have no plan to resolve the revenue shortfall. What now? More layoffs are expected to cut our bloated operating costs.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/intel-ceo-retires-chipmaker-loses-ground-ai-revolution-rcna182417

Change is inevitable when organizations merge, but you don't take tens of thousands of trained and certified customers and partners and kick them to the curb by making everything they have worked toward irrelevant. Ki-ling one the most valuable... — read more 

“He discovered America is what he did. He was a brave Italian explorer. And in this house, Christopher Columbus is a hero. End of story.” – Tony Soprano “He wrote me a redundancy check with a transition payment and a bonus, not to mention the stock... — read more 

Worst ever pay raise ever in my career last year. No pay raise this year. Meanwhile cost of living is sky rocketing. I guess Omnissa really don’t care about keeping people. It’s obvious this is to make people leave without having to pay severance... — read more 

it is coming soon.

What’s the status of cleared BC employees waiting to transfer to Omnissa due to no FSO?

A bunch of middle and snr managers thought that they knew how to run a business after they had been sitting on their as--s collecting paychecks for simply breathing. Newsflash, you’re all going to be UNEMPLOYED

Heard a rumor that the last gss folks working remotely are being told relocate to CO? Anyone else hear about this ?

I was let go today in the Cork EMEA office. I'm gone in around 4 weeks time. Best of luck to anyone else let go today. Bad timing just before Christmas.

As I am no longer with VMware, just wondering how the event was this year

... he has now managed to tank Intel and get it kicked out of the Dow index after 25 years. It still makes me laugh with scorn at what an overrated charade he was at VMW.

https://www.channele2e.com/feature/the-silent-majority-what-customers-really-think-of-broadcoms-vmware-buy

Now this is how you Hock a customer! 1000% price increase. I’m impressed. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/10/broadcom-tried-to-jack-vmware-prices-by-1050-percent-att-claims/