Are people in Broadcom really liars or did they lie to VMware employees only to get a better deal? We were told we could work from home for one year and they would evaluate the results after that and decide if we could keep working from home after that. Also the offer letter said we could be asked to work in the office, implying that would be a management decision, but in day 1 after the acquisition they revel their secret plan and asked everyone to return to the office. The CEO also said in the town hall meeting "we don't care about people, we care about money" trashing all good VMWare culture. Before the acquisition they told they would try to adapt the good things from VMware, but instead just ignored and trashed everything. That looks so bad. It really stinks! I will start applying ASAP and leave this shit!
Welcome to the real world
“we don't care about people, we care about money”, did the CEO really say that? Even though every CEO thinks that way, no one spits out in public.
exactly. unbelievable. If he'd said that, it'd immediately heat up the media and broadcom stocks.
No, CEO never said that. OP is exaggerating. I agree, Hock Tan's behaviour is like this only that he cares about money and not about people much.. But still he never said that and will never say that loudly.
Sorry that you believed. I don’t think Broadcom ever explicitly said that. Every previous acquisition went through what you are going through. They are not going to change for VMware. It’s just another company they acquired. As much as I don’t like this RTO, I like the CEO for not sugar coating anything
VMware how can you be so naive? Broadcom has played the same movie, always, after every acquisition. Why on earth did you believe you would be special??
They are not lairs , you misunderstood the truth . Avago (kept the Broadcom name for marketing brand) always do this. This is known
😂😂This same thing was said while acquiring Symantec. I would suggest you to stay for a few years and pluck some AVGO RSUs, trust me you will thank me later. I know it will be difficult to adjust in this environment, but it is worth it for at least 4 years.
No one knows who can stay till 4 years, every quarter there is layoffs. Anyone can be laid off.
Once the acquisition madness settles down, most layoffs are performance based.
Do you live very far from office? If not what is the problem to RTO? It might sound difficult initially but You will adjust soon and once you see good Rsus you will forget this pain. Hang in there, if you still didn’t like RTO , work with your manager and HR and convert your role to remote. I know few people in Symantec did this.
Remote here from VMware after acquisitions manager showed true caller and asking me to change myself remote to normal employee.
Sounds like your management is doing this , why should a remote employee come to office? You should talk to HR and get clarification.
Profits matter. If ceo believes that people are more productive on RTO, then he will enforce that. RTO has been done by many companies recently. Every company during pandemic was remote and later did RTO. Even people who were given remote offers or promised 1-2 days remote are RTO. So I don’t think RTO is that evil. You can try to find a job that’s remote and hoping they don’t RTO you.
Just coz everyone is doing it, doesn’t mean it’s aight.
I guess VMware higher mgmt. lied rather than Broadcom. Or may be the VMware higher mgmt. was too optimistic and thought they could easily convince Hock Tan to accept VMWare culture. But you guys could have easily guessed it by looking at Broadcoms previous acquisitions. You could have at least listened to Broadcom guys on Blind. We were always telling you guys about how RTO works at Broadcom
This 100%. I can say from the Broadcom side over the past 18 months we have all been wondering how VMware would respond to RTO, because it was clear and understood that it was going to happen once acquisition was done. I think if there was a miscommunication, it likely came from VMware mgmt.
No , its op and his/her team were delusional, most of the vmware knew how BC operates. And 18 months were long time to decide.
Good luck with Broadcom. Aquire, Fire, repeat.. They dont care much about your prev culture.