silverbax@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoBroadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the companywww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1440arrow-down19cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldlavoro@feddit.ithackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up1431arrow-down1external-linkBroadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the companywww.businessinsider.comsilverbax@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square69fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldlavoro@feddit.ithackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
minus-squareotl@lemmy.srcbeat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·1 year agoEspecially with their sizes: Broadcom has 20,000 employees and VMWare has 38,000.
minus-squarebillwashere@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 year agoAnd Broadcom has a history of buying companies and squeezing every cent from them before they destroy them. I don’t expect VMWare to be around in 10 years.
minus-squaretagliatelle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoVMWare has 38k? holy hell. I was surprised by slack having over 3k.
minus-squareexpr@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoVMware is shockingly massive. Hundreds of different products and many, many teams.
minus-squarepezhorelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoWell, now they’re down to ~18k if rumors are correct.
Mergers always mean layoffs.
Especially with their sizes: Broadcom has 20,000 employees and VMWare has 38,000.
And Broadcom has a history of buying companies and squeezing every cent from them before they destroy them. I don’t expect VMWare to be around in 10 years.
VMWare has 38k? holy hell. I was surprised by slack having over 3k.
VMware is shockingly massive. Hundreds of different products and many, many teams.
Well, now they’re down to ~18k if rumors are correct.