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Symantec
- link Broadcom buying Symantec? Is this news confirmed? https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/02/symantec-shares-soar-on-report-that-broadcom-in-talks-to-acquire-it.html
- Akamai vs Symantec Worse comes to worse, as in I fail my remaining interviews, should I stay at Akamai or go to Symantec? In either case, I’ll still be interviewing again after 6-9 months. Akamai: 117,300 base 10% bonus, 47k/4 years rsu Symantec: 130,000 base 10% bonus, 15k signing bonus and 25k/4 years RSU The onl
- Symantec Offer Since the people here has provided me with lots of useful information, time to pay it back. Software Engineer 130k Base + 10% bonus annually 25k RSU vesting over 4 years 15k signing bonus Did not negotiate at all yet, still interviewing.
- Symantec Layoffs? Is that something that's happening?
- Symantec HR Contact Anyone from Symantec here? I need employment verification letter from them. I left back in 2015 and none of the people I know work there anymore. Anyone can share the HR email with me? Thank you.
- Broadcom and Symantec enterprise division work culture I am talking to a team within Symantec enterprise division acquired by Broadcom and trying to understand the work culture and job safety in the group. Still talking to HM regarding the final numbers but wanted to know the risks and opportunities in the software groups. TiA Yoe:13 Tc: lots of pean
- Proofpoint, Symantec, and Mimecast compensation. What is the TC (total compensation) for a software engineer at Proofpoint and other similar companies (Symantec, Mimecast, and others)? Entry level? - <1 year exp + 2 past internships. Junior level? - 2 to 3 years exp Mid level? - 4 to 6 years exp Senior level? The level and the years may not ma
- Interview opportunity at Symantec I have an interview opportunity for a Software Engineer position at the Los Angeles office.Any idea how the interview process will be ?
- Symantec shuttle from SF Hey Blind community, Does anyone know if Symantec has a company shuttle bus from SF to Mountain View? Thanks!
- Symantec Aug 2019 Layoffs It seems like the RIF on Thurs was a lot less than expected. Most of the deadwood in marketing, etc is still intact. Mostly just older guys and some management were let go. Anyone have a different take or more insight into different groups affected?
- What happened to the Symantec buyout? Thought the Broadcom was supposed to be acquiring Symantec — what happened?
- Any recent ex-symantec people? ^
- Symantec has screwed up employee motivation & career Symantec has screwed up employee motivation & careers of folks in this company now — Do you guys feel that way? Can it rebuild trust in its employees given that we should be treated like customers? How many more layoffs should we expect - given brodcom happens or not? Have you started dusting your
- Symantec Sr Manager, Marketing and Ops How much TC can I negotiate in Mountain View and in which composition? Thanks!
- link Symantec fires another CEO http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/symantec-ceo-browns-exit-highlights-companys-continuing-struggles/d/d-id/1325324 I spent a few years with SYMC. I was there when Steve Bennett left the board to take over as CEO, after the board had fired Salem. I was happy to see Salem go, not only was he a wom
- @Symantec Principal Engineer TC(US/India) What is comp structure and what should one expect?
- Symantec future outlook? (still looking for sell?) Got an interview opportunity, wondering what’s latest company future outlook? Is private entity or any others still looking to acquire this company?
- Cybersecurity stocks on the rise? Symantec & Proofpoint What sparked the growth and success? Saw your stocks jumped.
- link Symantec buyout by private equity firm? How likely is this? https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/06/symantec-spikes-after-reportedly-being-approached-about-acquisition.html
- Symantec going to eliminate 3500 out of 7500 Enterprise employees because of Broadcom deal Whooping 47% elimination. Might need referral soon. Any thoughts, comments?
- How are symantec guys ? Hear of a major layoff before the acquisition by broadcom Subject says it all
- Eight Onsites For the past three months, I’ve had eight on-site interviews and I only managed to get an offer from Symantec (don’t really want to join them). Has this ever happened to anyone else? Assuming all things equal (not douchebag, not arrogant, just completely normal guy), how can one be good enough to pa
- I'm thinking of joining Symantec.Have they got their shit together? I'm only interested in hearing from current Symantec employees. What do you think about the current state of the company? What does it's future look like over the next 5-10 years? Which Symantec products do senior managers care about the most?
- Fucked companies I see Symantec getting bought by Broadcom, so they're fucked. Tesla is getting close to rationing toilet paper so they're fucked. Who else is fucked?
- Referral needed for Network Security domain Looking for referrals for a friend of mine in Network Security domain. 6 YOE Skillsets for Security : Application management: 2FA (SafeNet & Symantec VIP), Symantec Messaging Gateway. PKI: Server Management, Verizon (SSL on Demand Portal), Symantec mPKI, DigiCert CertCentral, Internal Infrastruct
- Broadcom buys Symantec's Enterprise devision... Fate of employees and who is affected? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-08/broadcom-to-buy-symantec-s-enterprise-division-for-10-7-billion
- Any security folks here? Thoughts on browser isolation technology? Stuff like menlo security, ericom, fireglass (bought by symantec) etc where the end user browsing experience happens in disposable environments
- Product at life lock How good are product mgmt opportunities at life lock ? Are the pay scales any better than they are at Symantec?
- Broadcom offers for CA employees Can you please share the numbers, level and terms of your Stay or Trans offer you receiver from Broadcom last year? I am sure Symantec employees will greatly appreciate any insights.
- Referral for Broadcom Hi, I am intern at symantec, I want referrals for full time SDE postion or Data science position at Broadcom, I will appreciate if someone can help!! Thanks.
- broadcom rif/severance plan if/when boradcom acquires symantecs EBU then we fall under broadcoms severance plan. two questions: 1. can anybody comment on what their plan consists of? 2. is boradcom requored to give severence to everybody during a large layoff
- Planning interview schedule and timing to get multiple offers. A friend wants to start interviewing at Symantec, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and maybe Salesforce. He is wondering what will be the right timing in order to get offers at the same time. His target positions are Technical Director(S), Staff SDE (G), Principal SDE (MS, A). I know that it usually aro
- Shout out for referrals I am from symantec, heard soon they gonna layoff people, any help or referrals would be appreciated. I have skills in data science and machine learning, also open to SDE positions. Thanks DM me if you can help me!
- Interview at NortonLifeLock I have an onsite interview coming up at NortonLifeLock for a Software Engineer position at their Culver City Office. Can anyone please share their past experiences or anything that might help me prepare for that? Thank you in advance.#engineering #software #swe #newgrad #symantec
- Referral for Lyft Hi I’m interested in applying for a backend software engineer role at Lyft. Can someone refer me, I can PM my email and resume Currently working as a software engineer at Symantec with a total of 2 yoe. I applied online but haven’t heard back from them Thanks in advance!!!
- CA Employees - how is your life after Broadcom acquisition? It's been more than a year since Broadcom acquired CA. Folks at Symantec are eager to hear any tips what to expect. I understand it was a significant layoff right after the acquisition. How bad it was on the dev side? Do you operate as a subsidiary with own processes, grades, compensation, etc? How
- vmware offer review I got a verbal offer from VMware for Sr.MTS in VMC group at Palo Alto, CA Base 190k Bonus 17% RSU 200K/4 year YOE - 7 My current offer has TC is 250k from Broadcom (Symantec employee) I applied through referral and at that time, the level was staff but now recruiter is saying the level is Sr. MTS.
- Best tech jobs in Chicago I'm a little disappointed in Chicago's tech scene but I'm optimistic that I am just a little in the dark and it's not all that bad. To level-set - I'm of the opinion that working as a developer at a non-tech company like Expedia, CapitalOne, etc. is roughly equivalent to working at some B-league tec
- How to negotiate raise Hi, I started off at 73k base and 10% performance bonus in June 2017 as associate SE. I got promoted this month and base has been increase to 91k. Total exp: 4 years. 2 years as QE pre MS, 1 year internship and 1 year as SDE at Symantec. Location: San Diego. I spoke to manager and director, they
- Amazon, Downleveled to L5 from L6 SWE I am in process of interviewing with Amazon Alexa in SoCal. I had online tech screen, then a phone screen to decided between L5 and L6. Afterwards was told was downleveled to L5. I really think the reason wasn't able to show lot of pratical experience leading projects or having much of an impact wit
- Junior PM - Moving from NYC to Bay Area - Need Referal I am a Associate PM with 1.5 years of experience in a financial services firm, working on end user products with front end teams. I am looking to move to the Bay Area, due to personal reasons. I was looking for some general advice about how to approach this move - in particular it seems super hard t
- Maternity Benefit Removal Broadcom has removed the maternity benefit payment that Symantec used to provide at our location, so we are now reduced to having only the minimum statutory payment from the government during maternity leave. My situation is tricky as I have been trying to conceive for over a year but have had no l
- How to deal with such a manager Manager doesn't understand the product, didn't even bother to install it once or use it, has no idea about complexity of tasks or good from bad design. He only cares about the job getting done, whether it is done right, doesn't matter, and he does favoritism with a few team members who are good at
- Startup or Family Hey blinders, I am a female and have a decent job at my current company(at Symantec now) and my WLB has been really good but my overall compensation is low and not been doing any interesting work. i got an offer from start up( about 30 ppl and seed) and they are paying me almost 70K more than my
- If you just stopped working, how long do you think your company would keep you on payroll? I would never do it, but at every company I've worked for I game out in my mind how long it would take the company to take me off payroll if I quit working but didn't tell anyone. Just stopped showing up. I think Amazon would take about a month. After about a week my boss would be investigating, ma
- CA WARN report What insights are you able to draw from this report? https://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/warn/WARN_Report_for_7-1-2018_to_06-10-2019.pdf Some of the things I noticed... - Even some big names in Tech regularly let go significant # of employees - Apple/Western Digital/Tesla/Paypal/Marvel/Symant
- Austin vs Bay area salary (UPDATED) I currently have two offers from public companies(offers are better than my current job at Symantec which got sold off to broadcom) Offer1: Austin, TX Position: Sr Staff software engineer Base: 148500 RSU: 20k No signing bonus 15 percent performance bonus with chance to go till 30 percent
- link ‘ Build on your lot’ builders with cost+floor plans in bay area,ca. I searched but couldn’t find builders with floor plan catalog & approx cost. This was the only one- https://thomasjameshomesusa.com/northern-california/ Any recommendations? Thanks
- vote Stocks and US Elections #personalfinance #investments Has anyone noticed recent steady sell off? what do you think, what are the chances of stocks falling after upcoming US elections if trump wins or biden wins..
- vote What will happen if Prop 22 doesn’t pass? Title says it all. Mainly thinking from the Gig companies perspectives. Vote or comment #Prop22 #tech #california @postmates @caviar @grubhub