How long will they hold like this?

We have a bunch of things stopped from the engineering side because we can’t purchase the gear needed to work on new tech such as AI. People is anxious and angre, especially workers from the US who did not get any offers. I just hope VMware attorneys... — read more 

I know many are smart enough and really intelligent - so please skip if you are one of those. People who are kind of ingenuous or inexperienced, please listen --- sadly there is a bunch of opportunists who would try their best to increase their... — read more 

If you receive an offer of a 20% salary reduction with $800k-$1000k in rsu check the vesting schedule on the rsu. If it's 12 months ask yourself what percent of the engineering org will be laid off within the first 12 months post acquisition and... — read more 

5B of compensation if the deal won't go through is not much. in the last 1.5years everything inside VMW depended from this acquisition, no goals, no scope, nothing... just waiting for the deal to go through. The damage for VMW would be more than... — read more 

For those still waiting on an offer and have 8+ years of experience, I would recommend carefully considering whether to accept it. The salary remains the same or may even decrease, and the RSUs offered for sales or presales positions are less... — read more 

Sorry, I meant who will be first to leave VMware to “spend more time with their families“? Magoo Betsy State your reasons - the wilder the better 😀.

Hi, I'm from one of the Core teams supporting at a L3, if we all just stopped? Stopped taking P1s, P2-P3 etc what would actually happen? Managers can't let us all go and if everyone stopped working as a protest to this BS then they would have to do... — read more 

I understand they were only supposed to have three extensions to the merger, and this is the third one. My question is, what's to stop two parties that want to merge, to extend the deadline? I mean, if both sides want the deal to happen, they can... — read more 

What if HT doesn’t announce, to avoid paying $1.5B?

You guys know that after the election since AVGO is all taken, at this point the more deviation is from $142.50 (whether higher or lower) the more likely hedge funds are predicting the deal will fail right? After all, they'd be losing money if the... — read more 

Investors are getting nervous, VMW employees are on the verge of rioting. This has been fumbled so hard that regardless of China approval, or whatever else is holding it up, it’s gonna past it’s “sell by” date. I seriously worry about the viability... — read more 

Next time you have an interview, watch closely how Hock Tan/AVGO answers tough questions and apply the same tactics. Question: Is China going to approve the deal? Is there any issue with geopolitics similar to Intel-Tower or Qualcomm-NXP... — read more 

How much did your base pay reduce and did your RSU make up for it? P7 Sales 25% cut and RSU do not make up for the cut.

BC offered me a small raise, a signing bonus equal to a year's pay, and nearly doubled my raise maximum. VMware suspended my stock plan while waiting for the merger to happen. I don't know if BC has a better working environment, but I'll be richer... — read more 

Suspect it’s meant to say ‘didn’t know’ but the paragraphs of interest: “The official said he did know if Yellen would raise the issue of the $69bn merger between chipmaker Broadcom and cloud software company VMware, which the companies delayed last... — read more 

How long have you been with VMware? I'm trying to figure out if years of service played any role in deciding who to keep.

Sit back and put your feet up. Most people’s calendars are empty with very little work being done. Enjoy this comedy show for another week (at least) and don’t forget…..keep focusing on the main thing, it’ll happen..soon. How soon I hear you ask... — read more 

After how mishandled this whole process has been, I truly hope Broadcom gets rid of the entire VMware ELT and anybody else who was high enough to contribute to this mess once this is all done. Who would want such a level of incompetence joining their... — read more 

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/ftc-increases-risk-acquirers-extending-time-review Now, in transactions in which the FTC has not completed its review before the waiting period expires, the acquirer may be contractually compelled to close and... — read more 

You could be locked out in the middle of the night

Didn’t get FTE but we were all sent invite from our VP with Broadcom emails on it. Looked them up they are leadership (VP of architect at BC software, VP of Latin America at BC software …) there will always probably be announcements .. anyone know... — read more 

Tell me why are there people flying out to different cities embracing their new role at BC? Example: new manager under BC flying out to do QBR, team from India flying to Washington… do they know something we don’t know? Why are they moving on like... — read more 

Mike Gannon scheduled the enterprise all hands call tomorrow… anyone else getting all hands invites for their segment?

https://search.ftc.gov/search?affiliate=ftc_prod&query=Broadcom+vmware&commit=Search If you search Broadcom VMware on the FTC website, nothing shows up. After HSR waiting period has passed without challenge, FTC is green light until/if they decide... — read more 

https://www.samr.gov.cn/fldes/ajgs/jyaj/index.html Broadcom/VMware has not been officially reviewed or addressed on the website. A full search of the site shows no hits for Broadcom or VMware.

The closing has been mishandled. For someone with this much M&A experience the mistakes are surprisingly rudimentary. Quotes from FT: “Never before has there been such uncertainty over the fate of such a large acquisition so close to a supposed... — read more 

Guess we will find out soon

BEIJING, Nov 3 (Reuters) - China's commerce minister told Micron Technology Inc's (MU.O) president Beijing would welcome the U.S. semiconductor company deepening its footprint in the Chinese market, signally a further thaw in relations between the... — read more 

DOJ/FTC is working on a new merger guideline that is currently under review and set to become effective as early as Q1 2024. It outlines considerations for a scenario that VMware (or any other companies acquired by Avago for thst matter) are familiar... — read more 

How I can stop wasting time ? I also don't want to miss really important updates.

While hardworking VMWarers pondered and often feared about their future, the EVP of Sales was cashing in their stock and reaping millions. Why? https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1124610.htm

Thumbs UP if you think we will hear something this upcoming week Thumbs DOWN if you think no approval coming and leadership will continue to hide like the cowards they’ve been

CNBC grilled Kevin O'Leary https://youtu.be/dTGqHqkhc4k?si=FFsDD0px5osARXj8

It is like your daughter is getting married in next 4 hours, and her husband-to-be said it has to be delayed due to some approval issue from one of his uncle in China; how do you plan a plan B for this?

Why did Tom Krause went to become the CEO of Cloud Software Group, which is a frankenstein formed out of dead carcasses of Citrix and Tibco? They are in the same industry sector as we are aren't they? Would it be because TK and HT had... — read more 

They are removing many posts here. Several of us have kept track of each others posts. Amazing for an “anonymous” forum to censure. It seems conservative postings are deleted the most. Three of us have posted 30 times and only 14 remain. Either... — read more 

Did you guys hear about Kirk Lawrence the Dell engineer who got laid off after 13 years and ended up shooting himself in the parking lot of Round rock campus? Michael Dell really don’t give any Fu--s about people… stay safe VMWare family don’t let... — read more 

How could you let Hock Tan destroy our company BEFORE he even had it??? Why did you not allow us to be treated with respect o CANT imagine what you would’ve let him done to us and company after acquisition. WE built this company off our backs (sales... — read more 

Heard rumors on increasing RSUs and/or removing base cut ? Anyone knows more details ?