To keep it simple, just reply: Yes or No It’s amusing to see ESG staying below the line of doom quarter after quarter. Relying heavily on aggregators to save the business, but it’s doing more damage.

But it may be too little, too late. Internally, whispers of restructuring and layoffs are growing louder. If ESG doesn’t turn things around this quarter, we might lose more than just customers Jason knows what that really means: ESG is no longer the... — read more 

Sep 16.0 is out of the door. Will there be another round of layoffs?

Does HR not track badge data?

Hey ESG folks, working hard to stay relevant? Lol. Here at Symantec’s Singapore office, we’re just chilling and following the badge-in, badge-out policy. Some of us just tap our badge and head back home right away, while most don’t stick around after... — read more 

Agrigator’s model? Oh please, it’s just another fine addition to the BS Hall of Fame. Spoiler alert: they still can’t hang on to small or mid-sized accounts—renewals are as rare as a quiet gSpace thread. Rumor has it, more layoffs are on the... — read more 

10 to 20% reduction in ESG is the news. Some sites has been notified about their last working day.

Getting ready to go onstage hashtag#RSAC2025! Talking about nation state attackers and how small organizations are no longer out of the crosshairs. Esplanade 156 in South Moscone. Symantec Carbon Black #LegendsNeverDie

BIG LAYOFF -- Enterprise Security Group (ESG) laid off many people in tech support and professional services.

5 Biggest Broadcom, VMware, Symantec Executive Exits In 2025 https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/5-biggest-broadcom-vmware-symantec-executive-exits-in-2025

In exchange for tarrif exemptions. DT hotel coming. What a world!

I work in a sales support role (CPM) and have been fully expecting to get the axe and severance, but somehow am still here resting and vesting. Was looking forward to severance last round as I'm bored out of my mind, working maybe an hour a day, but... — read more 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/broadcom-announces-10-billion-share-202720941.html Forward PE ratio of 22 doesn’t give full picture. Price/CF is around 11, that’s extremely low for a company like Broadcom, despite all the tariff/trade war... — read more 

He was clueless that the division was doing bad all this time. I hope he will question it in the next investor call.

Broadcom VMware Ups Minimum Core Purchase ‘Substantially,’ Levies Late Renewal Penalties Beginning April 10, the fewest licenses a VMware customer can buy will be 72 cores per CPU, up from 16 cores. Meanwhile, late renewals will now cost customers... — read more 

Layoff after layoff and pushing nearly all responsibilities out to the partner community or contractors is ki-ling this company. It’s quite literally become a Ponzi scheme stealing money until customers realize there is no future and jump ship to... — read more 

Chinese commerce minister meets Broadcom CEO https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202503/21/content_WS67dd671bc6d0868f4e8f10ab.html

Is this going to recover any sooner??

What's going on ? Can someone explain to me ?

Hock at work to stop criticism.

Is here somebody from Prague? It seems to me that the clima in the office has changed significantly over the past year. Much less stocks, layoffs, functional and product managers doing job of multiple people, reduction of scrum masters, hiring... — read more 

Tell me what changed with these General Managers — Art, Rob, and now Jason. Each of them came up with strategies to buy time, collect more RSUs, and let their teams suffer, leading to layoffs. Hock being Hock — they’ve all managed to manipulate him... — read more 

According to an internal source, the ROI from the aggregator model isn’t improving. It’s actually getting worse by the day. Brace yourselves.

You knew it was coming. "play the game" is absolutely the approach. it's called Rest & Vest, many of us do it here and reaping the rewards... lmfao.

It looks like 2 year grant has been given. e Current year grant Second year grant. Can you please share the gradewise count. We are hearing mixed bag.

VMware's employees. The developer of virtualization software currently has around 16,000 employees. This was reported by the US business magazine Business Insider. At the beginning of 2023, there were still more than 38,000 employees. While the share... — read more 

“Many at ESG/CB are simply committing AI generated shitcode in order to drive up line counts, since that seems to be the only measure of productivity.”

anyone know what day the refresher RSUs are supposed to show up?

since day one the new administration has been clear about them having 2 key priorities... cutting gov spending and modernizing fed IT systems . they want a smarter government not just a bigger one (that's what they say, we'll see what they mean). At... — read more 

Ugh, here we go again. First, they start creeping into the EDR space like they own the place, and now this? Carbon Black, don’t cross your limits! Are you guys seriously trying to take over Symantec? We all saw the writing on the wall when VMware... — read more 

https://www.broadcom.com/blog/for-cost-and-mission-effective-federal-it-modernization-go-private

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/03/03/tsmc-to-announce-100-billion-investment-in-us-chip-plants.html

China/AI/Trump ki-ling it....inevitably leads to cuts.

Folks, It's a sad day, the ratings for Broadcom threads have been deleted. I checked other companies on the site. They are fine. What gives?

Apple ditches Broadcom -- Wifi Chips https://wallstreetpit.com/124256-apple-ditches-broadcom-in-house-wi-fi-chips-incoming/

ESG is expected to conduct another round of layoffs around March. Those affected will not receive RSU refreshers this time. Please stay tuned for updates, and feel free to share if your team is impacted.

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