Hi Folks Received an offer from VMware. Need your thoughts on the same: YOE: 14 Position: P5 Staff 1 engineer Tech: golang kubernetes Location: Palo Alto CA Base: 240K Bonus: 20% = 48k RSU: 200K over 4 years Update : 300k over 4 years Sign on: 50K TC year 1: 413k (updated) Year 2 - 4: 363k (updated) Current: bonus+base: 200K RSU: 100K TC: 300K ( I want to leave coz of toxic culture and very bad wlb, affecting my health) I have done some LC grind and can solved most medium questions. They are telling me there is no way to push RSU up but are trying to get 260k on base Should I walk away or take the offer ? Please let's ignore the Broadcom acquisition to allow this post to purely focus on above offer.#tech #tech
Bdw vmware also does layoffs like cisco
I would jump on it, no brainer if you're dealing with toxicity and wlb issues at Cisco.
Do you see any scope in bumping the offer ? VMWare does not know what my current situation is!!
The highest base I've seen personally is 270k for p1, most get around 220k-240k even at your yoe. Your RSU's are average. If they kick your base to 260k you're getting a pretty good p1 package.
If you're on Visa, do not move. AVGO is interested in acquiring and hoping to announce in next few weeks.
The offer is good. You can push them for more RSU. Guess 300 base for staff is wrong information. Infact I haven’t seen that even for staff 2. I worked at Cisco for 3 years and at VMW for 4 years. VMW is lot better than Cisco. Relatively less politics, almost no reorgs, and layoffs are purely based on performance. At least that’s what I have seen. But I would be careful with broadcom acquisition.
Do u know how much i can push for in RSU.. base they are saying would be bumped by 10-20k
Moat of the managers there are from cisco so i guess they have politics as well. Usually these companies give cisco folks less salary because they know that ppl still join. Lately saw lots of folks from cisco went to google because google can easily low ball them and still get headcount filled
It's a good offer
4 months back they reached out to me and said its staff level and very senior position. I asked for 500k in bay area they said thats not the problem
There is a guy from nutanix who says you can get 230k base and 300k RSU PER YEAR in nutanix.. you should look into it. But as far as this offer goes this looks good. 👍
He is lying.
From Broadcom*
Don’t join. Save your self
Looks good for vmw. Broadcom acquisition may come good
Vmware tanzu isnt doing well. Every tom dick and harry is doing golang and k8s these days. Ask for more base. They give 320 base for staff
It's not Tanzu. It's Telco BU
Ya but lots of team doing same stuff in vmware using k8s and golang